Pizzey's Perch

In 1970, then U.S. Vice-pres­i­dent Spiro Agnew derid­ed jour­nal­ists (although some say he meant politi­cians) crit­i­cal of Nixon admin­is­tra­tion poli­cies as “nat­ter­ing nabobs of neg­a­tivism.” Today, the char­ac­ter­i­sa­tion seems to be con­sid­ered either com­pli­men­ta­ry or aspirational.… Read the rest