26 March 2003 - outlook not insight
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Entertainment is about outlook, not insight. The camera is a poetic
genius who crafts of a moment a blazing jewel of heart-piercing
agony, and who sometimes wonders how the food in the fridge got
there. Journalism is the exercise of multiplying the changes
in your daily impressions by a hundred and reporting the results
as if they were newly-discovered works by Euclid. That is
everything you need to know about press coverage of the war
in Iraq.