There is verily a problem with the press, Tom Wicker would assure us. Here in these post-Watergate days, days of triumph for the knights of the media, the most depressing kind of reality sinks in: the press lacks stomach enough for its role of adversary to the Establishment. The press is “usually timid and anxious—for respectability at least as much as for profitability.”
Bartender! the vexed and aggrieved Middle American almost sings out. A round for everybody! So a modest streak still afflicts the press! There may be hope for us all.
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