“Savviness is what journalists admire in others. Savvy is what they themselves dearly wish to be. (And to be unsavvy is far worse than being wrong.) Savviness–that quality of being shrewd, practical, well-informed, perceptive, ironic, ‘with it,’ and unsentimental in all things political–is, in a sense, their professional religion. They make a cult of it.”
Jay Rosen, “Karl Rove and the Religion of the Washington Press” (PressThink, Aug. 14, 2007)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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