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The worst of these are the political analysts, the “serious” journalists. They cover themselves with expertization, they penetrate into the crevices of society, and feed out social pap. At least the scandal writers, the murder writers, and the columnists occasionally do give out a bit. (The word bit really means in the slang—a bit of truth.) | The worst of these are the political analysts, the “serious” journalists. They cover themselves with expertization, they penetrate into the crevices of society, and feed out social pap. At least the scandal writers, the murder writers, and the columnists occasionally do give out a bit. (The word bit really means in the slang—a bit of truth.) | ||
Underneath the pious tones with which call girls are written about—in the ''Post'' which is a forward paper socially—the pious tone is the tone of the social welfare worker who has everything clocked, rather than a conventionally moral tone. He or she knows that the sexy call girl is really rigid. Only if this were truly so instead of half-true why do they hate call-girls? | Underneath the pious tones with which call girls are written about—in the ''Post'' which is a forward paper socially—the pious tone is the tone of the social welfare worker who has everything clocked, rather than a conventionally moral tone. He or she knows that the sexy call girl is really rigid. (Only if this were truly so instead of half-true; why do they hate call-girls? Especially female social workers.) The ''Life'' and ''Times'' boys are the Harvard variety of the journalist, the man who must learn the truth in order to lie. | ||
Possible insight: the compulsion to get the story, to know the truth, can be a reflection of the anxiety that if the “truth” is not known, one cannot lie efficiently—by accident one may tell the truth. | Possible insight: the compulsion to get the story, to know the truth, can be a reflection of the anxiety that if the “truth” is not known, one cannot lie efficiently—by accident one may tell the truth. | ||