“Newspaper stories that were originally written to satisfy our daily hunger for idle and impersonal Schadenfreude – to excite and divert and be forgotten the next week – now take their place among serious sources of information and fact, and are treated as if they themselves were not simply raising the question of what happened and who is good and who is bad. I.”

“Newspaper stories that were originally written to satisfy our daily hunger for idle and impersonal Schadenfreude – to excite and divert and be forgotten the next week – now take their place among serious sources of information and fact, and are treated as if they themselves were not simply raising the question of what happened and who is good and who is bad. I.”

— Janet Malcolm