I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he... didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consider children as a beat. Clearly not an institution of power, children don't vote and they don't pass taxes. They have no mone...y, and they don't buy newspapers or watch the news on television. Consequently, children are one of the most neglected segments of society in the news, except as a subtopic of other power beats such as education, family, and crime. Children are in serious trouble in this society, which means the foundation of our society is in trouble, which means the future is in trouble, and that is news.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His [O.J. Simpson's] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those peop...le see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is little wonder that rape is one of the least-reported crimes. Perhaps it is the only crime in which the victim becomes the ac...cused and, in reality, it is she who must prove her good reputation, her mental soundness, and her impeccable propriety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far a...s Seattle before his crime was discovered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him ages... of education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the self-same flight... The self-same way with more advised watch To find the other forth, and by adventuring both I oft found both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He repelled, a short tale to make, Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,... Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, Thence to a lightness, and by this declension, Into the madness wherein now he raves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »