Meg Greenfield
Meg Greenfield
Mary EllenGreenfieldwas a Washington Post and Newsweek editorial writer and a Washington, D.C., insider known for her wit...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEditor
Date of Birth27 December 1930
CountryUnited States of America
drama simple reality
Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.
attitude government people
Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.
success exercise men
Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?
skins kind sensitivity
Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.
appetite fickle fifteen gets insatiable minutes seem
We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that individuals all seem to get their fifteen minutes of celebrity; everything gets only fifteen minutes.