Erasures from The Press and America, Michael Emery, 2000, p 143, 433
A Revolution in National Life
The newspaper
exists, is not.
Moralists: willful little men.
It is the process: History starts
afresh. This is not to deny
the obvious. American
forces — great forces —
the forces
intensive, sweeping, the powerful
new impetus of redirection.
So it was great. That had come
in the Jacksonian period
—there was a popular human—
new news enterprise
and force. But
changed.
The scene of famous figures had begun.
Leaders of the era died:
the New York Times
the New York Herald
the New York Tribune.
Credibility
The press was to serve.
Credibility became painfully
—there were gaps and and and people—
old and and white and silent.
The cult of disbelief had half the people
believing him, which meant
they harbored war.
Kennedy disbelieved
accounts of Kennedy’s doubt
over the years, rueful depth
of disbelief, encountered disastrous winter.
Public
a hollow shell.
His children’s crusade shattered
in the war. Credibility persisted
as his problems multiplied:
it was the American way.
Another steady diet
of bad news,
many years of prosperity.