Today’s overheated but sterile partisan arguments—what columnist Molly Ivins described as the World Wrestling Federation in political drag—have lost touch with the fundamentals on which America was built.
There is nothing wrong with making money off of the news,” says Tom Fenton, former senior foreign news correspondent for CBS. “I wouldn’t have had a career without that. But somewhere, in the rush for profit, the job itself of the media was forgotten.
On one side of the photograph, a line of simple brown brick houses stands with a group of African-American children crowded onto one stoop. Facing the older homes, on the opposite side of the street, is a line of brand-new three-story rowhouses...