Sometimes, as Sigmund Freud never quite said, politics is just politics.
One would not always know this by reading the American press. Unencumbered by extraneous talents and achievements, a sizeable number of this country’s journalists have come to exhibit an excessive faith in the only tool that they are capable of wielding: words. These days, to open up a newspaper or website is to get the feeling that the authors and editors who are featured within believe that reality is optional, that the truth must be subordinated to the narrative, and that all human experiences have been crafted out of soft putty. Once, we described members of the media as “reporters.” Presently, “scriptwriters” might be more apt.
