August 19, 2003

O PANTEÃO DO JORNALISMO
O debate é interessante: Journalism — unlike literature, theater, art, music, film, or situation comedy — has never had much of a canon, a reasonably well-accepted collection of great works. This is lamentable. It leaves us, as we read the latest dispatch from Washington or a war zone, without models that might help us understand what such a dispatch might be. It allows us to mistake an interesting feature in the Times this week or some particularly persuasive piece of reporting in the current New Yorker for the best that journalism has to offer. Para ler mais sobre o assunto basta ir aqui.