(These days, he says that intellectuals almost always bow to power).
The news that flows from that mind-set is often far more interesting than American media, which frequently bow to power even as they seek to hold it accountable," wrote Mr Carr.
The one question all young reporters on Fleet Street are taught to keep foremost in their mind when interviewing public figures can be best paraphrased as, "Why is this jerk lying to me?" The news that flows from that mind-set is often far more interesting than American media, which frequently bow to power even as they seek to hold it accountable.
He writes: "The one question all young reporters on Fleet Street are taught to keep foremost in their mind when interviewing public figures can be best paraphrased as, 'Why is this jerk lying to me?'" By contrast, he thinks American media "frequently bow to power even as they seek to hold it accountable".
It is in the nature of the powerful to bow to powers greater than their own, and the one power that is greater than that of any of the G20 leaders is the global economy itself.
Bowing to the power of GM and its then-Big Three partners, Ford and Chrysler, Clinton broke a campaign pledge to raise Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and instead underwrote industry research on super-clean future cars.
So in other words, the ICC is bowing to the power of one-dayers and T20, when it should be hell-bent on pushing Test cricket to the forefront.
And Green is accusing SPL chairmen of bowing to fan power instead of acting for the good of Scottish football.
This will not please desk warriors and armchair revolutionaries in Washington DC who believe America should overthrow authoritarian governments that refuse bowing to U.S. power, but it will be of great interest to the sober, level-headed American officials currently making Iran policy in Obama's White House.
They accused the government of bowing to Televisa's power.
Yet the Smithsonian administration made one awkward bow to power, deciding to censor a single exhibit, one judged particularly onerous: David Wojnarowicz's video, A Fire in My Belly.
