19 October 1999 - America: all the slants

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 1999 : 19 October 1999

American Journalism

Tell all the slants and call it truth.
Successive circus lies
Will brighten up informed Duluth
Like spotlights in the eyes.

clue:

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -
Success in circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise

As lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind -

— Emily Dickinson