“It does not take a long time,” said madame, “for an earthquake to swallow a town. Eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?” “A long time, I suppose,” said Defarge. “But when it is ready, it takes place, and grinds to pieces everything before it. In the meantime, it is […]
My dinner companion tells me that Bernie Sanders is unelectable. He tells me that Donald Trump will implode and that Clinton, whose nomination is foregone, likely will run against Jeb Bush. “He’s not like his brother,” my companion says. “He’s actually very smart.” Smart is good, certainly. I ask if it doesn’t bother him that primary […]
“You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.” Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (1926-2012) Publisher, The New York Times On September 9, New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan published this surprisingly frank assessment of her newspaper’s coverage of the Bernie Sanders campaign: “For The Times, Bernie Sanders’s entry into the presidential race was […]
