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...sensational tabloids sold in supermarkets. After the editors got over their astonishment that anyone would pose such a question, they responded with overwhelming denial. No rational adult, their reasoning went, would take such twaddle seriously as a source of news. Beatty responded that the chasm between serious reportage and junk journalism, so vast in the editors' minds, was far narrower in the minds of consumers -- and in the reality of what gets printed by the mainstream press in an ever more gossip-oriented age. Asked Beatty: "Do you think that the public knows that you feel this? Irresponsible journalism should...
...chooses, the course head can have media components--slides, video, audio--for the examination. An honor code might help make certain aspects of scheduling examination easier or less costly for us, and possible less stressful for students, but I don't think is time to junk the proctored examination system in favor of self-schedules. Joe Maruca Assistant Registrar, Scheduling Office
...Oprah and Geraldo and Donahue. When the program ends, the audience will mute a commercial and scratch itself, glance out the window and see that reality still looks lousy. It will turn back to the television and click through the channels to find another hour of pointless junk...
...questions about the "character issue" and the relevance of the sex lives of politicians. It is an issue that rounds up the usual suspects: John Kennedy and his girlfriends, Franklin Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer, Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, Gary Hart and Donna Rice. The story is still basically junk, a little sugar rush of news. But somehow the winter of 1992 feels a bit late for the prim old American Kabuki: the mayor caught in the whorehouse, the schoolmarm shaking her finger...
...costomer, outraged at the closing, began to shout that "junk stores" were opening up all over the Square...