The problem is that living in a dream and fantasy land is the act of a madman who is living breathily in a glass menagerie fantasy.
Does it seem as if these governors are living in constant awe of our opinions of them? “Where there is a free press, the governors must live in constant awe of the opinions of the governed.”īut take a minute and look around you now. There were clues to be found there, carved in ancient script upon the walls,like this one from a Lord Macaulay:
It was as if I were wandering through some ancient, gothic museum dedicated to the stern Anglo-Saxon gods. When I was a young reporter, before getting on the elevators to head up to the the newsroom, I’d take a minute to study the lobby of the great newspaper building where I worked.