当代社会更喜欢不伟大的东西。我自己就不喜欢伟大的广场,喜欢渺小的街心花园。读托尔斯泰时我一面感到敬畏,一面不喜欢他让我敬畏。我们更喜欢一些漂亮的、巧思的、轻快的东西,比如iPhone,比如诺兰的电影,比如作家里的minor poet(小诗人),从菲茨杰拉德到麦克尤恩那一路。无论如何,这是一个民主而聪明的时代,我们买的是个性,卖的是个性,而所谓“传统”已经被历史之手束之高阁。我是个媒体人,又是分辨爱好者,因此分辨过新闻传统中哪些是应该淘汰 Contemporary society prefers non-great things. I myself do not like the great square, like the tiny neighborhood garden. When I was reading Tolstoy, I was in awe while I did not like him and gave me awe. We like some pretty, clever, light things, like the iPhone, such as Nolan’s movies, such as the minor poet in the writer, all the way from Fitzgerald to McEwan. Anyway, this is an era of democracy and cleverness. What we buy is personality. What we sell is personality. The so-called “tradition” has been shelved by the hand of history. I am a media person and a discerning fan, so I can tell which of the news traditions should be eliminated