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Activism is a cyclical campus temperament, and we in 1998 are definitely in a nadir of complacency. During our first year here, outraged by the implications of The Bell Curve, the BSA rallied on the steps of Widener and was joined by other organizations in its efforts. In our sophomore year, the Asian American Association, RAZA and other organizations rallied against proposed cuts in legal immigration and in immigrants' access to social programs...
...that the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings in the fall of 1991 roughly coincided with Bill Clinton's emergence on the national scene? In the years since Long Dong Silver became a household name--not to mention Paula Jones and Dick Morris--one thing has become clear: the word nadir no longer has any meaning in public life. Perhaps this is why, according to the latest TIME/CNN poll, 60% of Americans are "disappointed" by the latest allegations against the President and 55% are "disgusted," but only 26% claim to be "surprised...
...while the Back Bay was the pinnacle of Patriot's Day culture yesterday, Harvard Yard might have been the nadir...
...reportage.... The press is antiseptically objective today, largely because of the wholesale right-wing attack. Statistical studies demonstrate that, in fact, there was more information conveyed about what the candidates said, what their positions were and what their politics were about, than what there is now. This is the nadir of coverage of politics. The networks made the decision because they claim the public isn't interested, but this is a self-fulfilling prophecy and entirely self-serving. Their method...is more debased than ever. The hacks of the past were straighter than the stars of the present...
Blumenthal is correct that the American public is reacting against "the nadir of the coverage of politics," but does that mean that we can look forward to a day when we will no longer be bombarded with scandal after scandal? While Blumenthal seems to place most of the blame on the press, there is a public that sops up the drivel coming out of media outlets. Who is providing the scandals...