Molly Holzschlag Quotes
By the time buzzwords appear in the popular press, there's probably a bunch of us in the development trenches pulling out our hair and weeping.
Holzschlag, Molly E. "Consumer Confusion." SitePoint, SitePoint Pty. Ltd., 2001.
He was reacting to the Japanese Defense of Okinawa which was failing on every front. When Japan started the war with America, its leaders were not at all convinced that they could drive America from the Pacific, but they were convinced that America would not spend the men and material to invade Japanese territory and that they would be able to negotiate a peace at some point if the price of invasion was too high. That assumption was brought into doubt.
This began after the White House daily press briefings started to be televised. Many reporters do not want their network or station to broadcast the question and answer where another reporter asked the question. So he or she asks the same question and uses that video on their news broadcast where the public is not only provided with the question and answer, but is reminded of how the reporter is doing his/her job. It would be easy for the Press Secretary to refuse to answer a question that has already been asked and answered, but most press secretaries understand the dynamics of modern journalism and go along with the repetition to help the reporters out.
Molly E. Holzschlag is a U.S. author, lecturer and advocate of the Open Web. She has written or co-authored 35 books on web design and open standards, including The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (co-authored with Dave Shea).