Mike Wallace's Interviews May Make Great Television,

War Is Such A Peculiar Thing - Inaugurated By The Whims Of Few, Affecting The Fate Of Many. It Is Difficult, If Not Impossible, Thing To Understand, Yet We Feel Compelled To Describe It As Though It Has Meaning - Even Virtue. It Starts For Reasons Often Hopelessly Obscure, Meanders On, Then Stops

If Someone Tells You That George Bush Is Not The 43rd President Of The United States, They Might Be Engaged In Wishful Thinking, Or Denial, But If They Make That Claim, It's Either True Or False! And You Can Assess That, Regardless Of Whether There's An Omniscient Narrator, Or An Unreliable Narrator, Or It's Shot In Vérité, Or It's Manipulated, It's Agitprop, Whatever! It Makes No Difference! It's A Style!

We Imagine What This Country Is, But Quite Clearly, This Country Is A Mystery. I Mean, One Of The Reasons I Did The Election Ads Is, I Thought I Could Learn Something. Like, What The Hell Is Going On? I Think Anybody - Particularly A Person Of Leftist Persuasion Such As Myself - Who Stops And Thinks Even For A Moment, Realizes That Something Strange Is Going On And We Don't Quite Get It.

We Have More Information - A Glut Of Information - Than Ever Before, And Perhaps Less Knowledge. That's What's Peculiar. And The Only Way You Can Deal With It, I Suppose, Is To Make Fun Of It. I Would Rather Watch Comedy Central For The News Than I'd Like To Watch Any Other Program On Television. Maybe That Shows You The State Of Affairs.

If You Want To Trick Someone With A Photograph, There Are Lots Of Easy Ways To Do It. You Don't Need Photoshop. You Don't Need Sophisticated Digital Photo-manipulation. You Don't Need A Computer. All You Need To Do Is Change The Caption.