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Whatever one may call the whole business there is vast indifference about it all. Indignation has been lost, says Columnist Joseph Kraft, in a disillusion with people in high places. Kraft quotes a man who says, "To most people [Government corruption] just one bunch of thieves robbing another bunch of thieves." The Chicago Daily News's Peter Lisagor finds people's moral outrage so depleted after a decade of assault from duplicity about Viet Nam to tax loopholes that it cannot get aroused over a little electronic eavesdropping, or the windfall of a few millions to corporate friends...
...have tipped your hand by using the word "columnist" or its equivalent, 27 times in the first half of the article. The only times you do not use the indefinite article is when you refer to Alsop and Anderson, and this is done in such a cavalier fashion that I can only assume that they are merely stimulus hate-words...
After using up about 50 pre cent of the news print space and half of the reader's time--building up your straw man columnist, you proceed with your own party line in a manner more demagogic than decent...
...insert just enough sound, analytical comment and show just enough of a good, if somewhat overblown, prose style to make the reader take you seriously, when in fact--all you're concerned with is trying out your wings, rather hatefully, as a "columnist...
...SUPPOSE THE COLUMNIST decides that he is tougher and smarter than the candidate; that the candidate himself is an outsider, whose sources of information and standing on the machismo ladder are inferior to the journalist's. Then the columnist becomes a suffering and occasionally furious papa, lecturing the candidate as if he were a twelve year...