Driving Visitors Crazy

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You’re driving along the highway licketty-split, see. You’re in a hurry and you’re worried about whether you’re goin’ to lose your job and whether that blonde’s going to be at that drug store tonight like she said she would an’ about whether there’s enough oil an’ that knock in the motor. You see modern man lives in conditions of strain, affect we students of psychology call it. You go along staring straight in front of you, crazy to get someplace and what do you see?
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

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Today’s journalism is obsessed with the kinds of things that tend to preoccupy thirteen-year-old boys: sports, sex, crime, and narcissism.... Moreover, if today’s journalism has a driving principle, that principle centers on an obsession with hypocrisy. Journalism is about many things, but these days it is often about revealing that public figures are phonies. Covering Bill Clinton or Prince Charles, or Michael Jackson, reporters frame their stories by saying implicitly, “These people aren’t what they say they are. Look, they lied to you.” Although there is a cultural role for balloon deflators, journalism has brought this characteristic attitude of the early adolescent to the adult world and elevated it to the status of cultural religion.
—Steven Stark. “Where the Boys Are,” Atlantic Monthly (September 1994)