26 March 2003 - outlook not insight

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.