It’s – the working class of San Francisco and the Bay Area is being pushed out of its old neighborhoods because of the skyrocketing cost of housing, and there’s no real working class left because these are jobs for engineers and managers and designers – very smart people. George Packer Read Quote
What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply, and without which even the most prolific commenters will someday run out of things to say. George Packer Read Quote
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism’s dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. George Packer Read Quote
Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism – money, eyeballs, software, brands. George Packer Read Quote
No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It’s routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country’s international reputation, how a nation’s prestige can be raised by its medal count. George Packer Read Quote
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them. George Packer Read Quote
I’ve been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about. George Packer Read Quote
It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn’t seem like fun to me. George Packer Read Quote
