Maggie's Farm

``Hence, the tendency of all lists of “journalistic ethics” to trail off into farce and nonsense. Ethics are for people who have no morals -- no humility in the face of the good, the true, and the beautiful. To tell the truth, to capture the “ring of truth,” requires instead a form of hard-earned simplicity. Seeking the true means seeking the obvious.''

resembles Vicki Hearne

``The child - of course, long before my fantasy IQ test, there is the episode in which the child runs after the men, crying. Crying out to ABC: ``Please! Help! They're going to kill my dog!'' And how foolishly, too, for it is to representatives of the media, in this and other episodes, that people who are afraid of losing their dogs have cried out, ``Help! Help!'' The media, by and large, have not answered this cry, and poetry cannot answer the cry, being promised to a different territory of the Ideal - to truth, rather than justice. The poet's response might be, if the muse approved the project, to sing a song of Spike, celebrating perhaps even the small boy's pride in Spike's vaunted prowess, and that would not help at all, not even if you explained to the Assistant Attorney General that the dog wasn't really a fighter and it was the boy's yearning for a dream of prowess that was being celebrated, which is to say the song's yearning for prowess and nothing to do with small boys anyhow, and justice would not be served thereby. '' (Bandit p.131)

So she calls it the difference between justice and poetry.