Joan Didion Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. December 5, 1934
Birthday: December 5
The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.
source: FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 25, 2011 
topic: Mean, Thinking, Practice, Lazy Thinking, Autopilot
