Sunday , 10 November 2024

Home » Quotes » NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 1, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 1, 2015

November 1, 2015 1:14 am Category: Quotes Comments Off on NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 1, 2015 A+ / A-

There is something distracting about a phantom of delight who radiates sexuality, filling us in on murder, rape, inflations, corruption, terror, bigotry, turpitude and sports. Newscasting is not a beauty contest. Ghastly tidings delivered by Aphrodite, or dispatches of grave import from an anchorman with a Barrymore profile and the magnetism of a Valentino, tend to lose something in translation; they become an effect. When pulchritude and sex appeal rate as prime ingredients in the dissemination of news, journalism yields to showmanship.

 

“Give Us 22 Minutes . . .” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983)

 

scroll to top