Posted
12:13 PM
by Gene
For those who remember journalism back in a 1970s heyday they can't explain to to the young, Halberstam's death was not just the death of a hero, it was like the death of the great Hollywood stars -- Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable. Who would replace them? No one has. Maybe no one ever does.When hacks see themselves as "the great Hollywood stars" -- or even when they see their heroes as such -- we see what is wrong with JERNALISM.(Via
the usual Romy, who has a little of Jimmy Cagney in him -- or so he thinks)