The rise of infotainment and tabloid TV news reflects popular acceptance of the summons to turn news into play — which people are willing to do when they have given up on public life.
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Up Against the Wall Street Journal
O n March 11, 1993, the Wall Street Journal published a long editorial-page article called “The Industrial Policy Hoax.” It was by Karl Zinsmeister, a scholar associated with the American Enterprise Institute who in the past had written mainly about U.S. social policy. The article, which was a summary version of a much longer essay […]