Terry Teachout has been travelling, and his blog is mostly snippets from the eminently quotable, like this bit from Tom Stoppard:
"Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins." Tom Stoppard, Night and Day
I'm a huge fan of the play--no surprise, perhaps; almost every journalist who has seen it loves it. Its central message, if a Tom Stoppard play could be said to have such a thing, is that journalism is a deeply flawed enterprise, and nonetheless matters. Too true.
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Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a former senior editor at The Atlantic. Her new book is The Up Side of Down.