{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "This is thumb-sucking season in Washington journalism. It is the time when the men who report to the nation the doings and...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/141341626348/", "html": "<blockquote>This is thumb-sucking season in Washington journalism. It is the time when the men who report to the nation the doings and misdoings of its federal government find the springs of factual news all but dried up and are reduced to turning out, in the guise of news, dispatches that in major part are the product of the reporters\u2019 communion with their own imaginative souls. The production of such dispatches is known to the craft as \u2018thumb sucking,\u2019 and the products themselves as &lsquo;think pieces.\u2019</blockquote>\nPaul W. Ward, \u201cThink Pieces\u201d (<i>The Nation,</i>\u00a0November 1936)<br/>"}