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Strangers among us
Every now and again the journalistic establishment notices the gulf between itself and its presumed mass audience and takes steps to close it. These steps are about as self-conscious and artificial as anything can be, and by their very nature they indicate why the gulf exists and how broad it is. For periodically, starting back in the days of the so-called "silent majority," journalists in teams would go out and report on the American public as if it were a bunch of South Sea islanders. These accounts, generally thought by those who produced them to be sympathetic, only accentuated the impression of distance and detachment between the journalists on the one hand, who behaved as if they were cultural anthropologists in a strange land, and the people they were covering on the other.
-- Columnist Meg Greenfield in the Nov. 3 Newseek. (AOL keyword: NW)
SALON | Oct. 31, 1997