Anthony Agonistes

‘What can we do when a powerful element in the press gets it wrong? We can say so—those of us in the business especially, because diversity is the right answer to concentrated power.”

So wrote New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis in a 1985 piece about a 60 Minutes report he didn’t like. The quote seemed particularly apt when I came across it, because for six months I had been scrutinizing everything Lewis wrote from 1976 through 1988—more than 1,200 columns and articles in all.

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‘What can we do when a powerful element in the press gets it wrong? We can say so—those of us in the business especially, because diversity is the right answer to concentrated power.”

So wrote New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis in a 1985 piece about a 60 Minutes report he didn’t like. The quote seemed particularly apt when I came across it, because for six months I had been scrutinizing everything Lewis wrote from 1976 through 1988—more than 1,200 columns and articles in all.