“Almost everyone involved in politics or covering politics now is getting dumber. They're getting lost in a sea of dumb. They may drown in it. People in politics now are getting what they know through the internet, through Google searches and Wikipedia. These can give you a certain sense of things but are by nature quick, lifeless and shallow reads that link to other quick, dry and shallow reads that everyone else has also read. Who wrote them? Nobody quite knows. And what you see is often presented at a slant. They put forward as fact what are really the biases or limited knowledge of the writer. It all becomes a big lying loop. Or at least a big, un-nourishing, inadequate one.”
— Peggy Noonan, 128th Annual Commencement Remarks
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