“The media’s reportage on ‘what’s happening’ — whatever you take that to mean — comprises at its best a kind of superficial gloss on events — and at its worst, bizarre fictions concocted for purposes between prostitution and hypnotism in order to produce reactions and feelings that lie somewhere between hysteria and mania. The idea that this represents events themselves, or even people’s take on them, is as ridiculous as it is insulting.”

— an anonymous informant