31. There are, as nearly as I can tell, three Big Guys in present-day American magazine journalism, as distinct from newspapering. 32. There will be a place for the Wall Street Journal at the top of American journalism for as long as there are national newspapers. 33. They are far removed from the great working-class traditions of American political journalism. 34. They call it the Newseum, an ambitious, interactive exhibit that celebrates the glories of news reporting even as it chronicles the sickest twists in American journalism. 35. This tropism toward tabloidism has crossed the pond, with a big boost from the Murdoch wanna-bes who increasingly dominate American journalism. 36. This taught him to prefer understatement and simple sentences to the long-winded flourishes once so common in American journalism. 37. We should be even more worried and angry about news people who by their executive decisions or journalistic participation corrupt the ethics and strengths of American journalism. 38. What a monument Mencken was to American journalism. 39. What Wolfe helped to do for nonfiction prose and the dissemination of ideas in modern American journalism can scarcely be overstated. 40. Winners of the prize, one of the most prestigious awards in American journalism, were announced Monday afternoon. |