‘‘Twenty-four-hour news networks are built for one thing, and that’s 9/11. There are very few events that would justify being covered 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So in the absence of urgency, they have to create it. You create urgency through conflict.’’ twitter.com/NYTmag/status/…
"There’s not a white person out there who would want to be treated like even a successful black person in this country."
(Same for Roma in Slovakia.)