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...depressing spectacle, rather than a vital activity in which citizens can and should be engaged," writes Fallows. He adds, "The less Americans care about public life, the less they will be interested in journalism of any form." Fallows and others argue, moreover, that today's reporters--often well-paid, well-connected Washington insiders--are simply not in touch with the concerns of ordinary people. A TIME/CNN poll found that negative feelings about the press are indeed widespread: 75% of the respondents agreed that the news media is "sensationalistic"; 63% found it "too negative"; and 73% said they are "skeptical about...
...life, I had been puzzled by this oxymoronic etymology, but had paid it little heed, (ignoring my grammar teacher, laughing off the oft-repeated high school jokes spawned by class rivalry and scorning the well-meaning [and well-paid] SAT instructors) until I, too, attained second-year status at Harvard...
...issues, the flat tax and the gold standard. If Forbes doesn't get the nomination himself, he could throw his support to Kemp. If Forbes wins, however, Kemp could get his dream of being Treasury Secretary. If Forbes loses, cynics predict that Kemp can at least count on a well-paid sinecure in the Forbes publishing empire...
...first answer that comes to mind is because the work one does as a cryptically titled, well-paid, recruited person is fascinating and satisfying. This must be true of some of the jobs one can obtain through the recruiting process. But the college experience of many recruiting hopefuls does not coincide as neatly with the activities of a management consultant or investment banker. It is difficult to imagine that students from almost every concentration, who filled their undergraduate days with sports, public service, campus publications and musical groups, have in fact been quelling a deep-seated interest in finance...
Twenty-seven years after Kerner, many of the problems it identified are as bad or worse. Before World War II, just 5% of blacks were in the middle class. Today the figure is closer to 60%. But the same years have seen a disappearance of the well-paid manufacturing jobs that pulled blue-collar workers, black and white alike, into prosperity. Good jobs now require skills that schools in poor neighborhoods do an ever more dismal job of teaching. And the white fear of a black underclass fosters the kind of racism that constantly puts even the black middle class...