The Trial of Henry Kissinger
“Since we had criticized the deference of the American media quite as much as we had attacked the moral sloth of the overfed American "human rights"community, he thought it was only fair to give Nightline's producer the right of reply. After an interval, we got our answer. "Is there," said the top man at that top-rated Kissinger-showcasing show, "anything new here?"Rick and I hugged ourselves with promised laughter at that. In Washington and New York and Los Angeles and every other cultural capi...tal, the shallow demand for novelty is also an ally of a favorite spin-tactic of the powerful, which is to confront a serious allegation not by refusing to deny it but instead by trying to reclassify it as "old news." And of course, the joke was therefore on the producer, who had come up with a stale and predictable and exhausted response. (We later asked him if there was anything fresh about his question.) Had it been asked in good faith, of course, that same question would still require a straight answer.MoreLess
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