(Like much first-rate journalism, this show translates hard facts into fluid, mutable life, and vice versa).
Take Monk's first complaint, that Russell churned out gobs of "second-rate journalism" instead of sticking to mathematics and logic.
And so we are about to enter a fractured, chaotic world of news, characterized by superior community conversation but a decidedly diminished level of first-rate journalism.
Britain, for instance, has "quality" newspapers that sometimes print third-rate journalism and redtop tabloids that sometimes produce reporting of the very highest standard.
He was writing first-rate journalism, deepened by the awareness of landscape and atmosphere, such as that so notably rendered in his description of the first landfall at Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas.
The New York Times, which quoted another woman alleging Trump "was like an octopus" who put his hand up her skirt on an aeroplane, was dismissed as peddling "third-rate journalism" on the instructions of the Clinton campaign.
"Marcus has the ability to think strategically about our newsroom, about how to realign our resources in a way that is consistent with what readers want and expect and maintain The Post's first-rate journalism".
Re "Amazon's Founder to Buy The Washington Post" (front page, Aug. 6): How sad that The Washington Post is being sold, which may signal the demise of the first-rate journalism and worldwide respect for a newspaper that has been an integral part of American history.
Her investigation of Governor Chris Christie and the Fort Lee traffic scandal was first-rate journalism.
Using a combination of video taken for Brazilian television and ex post facto talking-head interviews, the filmmakers have made a deceptively straightforward documentary that has the force of tragedy and the depth of first-rate investigative journalism.
