9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for September 20, 2001
Transcript:
"The reason why news in print is always better than news on the tube is a matter of reaction time." "When you read the news the reportage is frozen in print,to be weighed, re-read, subjected to critical judgment." "Tube news is legerdmain. A vaudeville of sound bites, grotesque images, and prattling anchors. It plays to your brains stem. There's no arguing with the tube." "Except of course in certain quarters."