The news is glorified gossip.

Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation.

To see what they look like, women look at a mirror. To look like what they see, women read magazines.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.