Nattering nabobs of negativism
Saturday, March 22, 2008
The title of today's column is a phrase coined by William Safire and given to Vice-President Spiro Agnew during the Nixon Administration to describe the press; the idea being that the press always looks at the negative and never at the positive. We continue to hear those same criticisms today, thirty five years later. Only today, it not only applies to journalists but to politicians as well.