What's So Bad About Feeling Good? - The Virus and Its Effects on Emotions
The Mayor:
Have you found out anymore of the effect of the virus?
Dr. Shapiro:
Well, it frees people from hostile feelings.
The Mayor:
You mean like tranquilizers?
Dr. Shapiro: [[friendly; [hopeful]
No, they merely suppress and diminish hostility. The virus seems to do away with it entirely. People become uh, ], more ], stop brooding.
Aide:
Mister Mayor, eighty-two percent not only stop brooding, they stop smoking. Ninety-three percent stop drinking.
The Mayor:
What's wrong with that?
Aide:
In terms of dollars and cents, it's disastrous. Our city is facing a drastic loss in income from sales tax.
The Mayor:
That's ridiculous. Forty-seven people? A drop in the bucket.
Aide:
But if this goes unchecked for a month, by mathematical progression, half of New York will have the virus. You know what that means? It means a loss in cigarette and liquor taxes more than one hundred and eighty million dollars.
The Mayor: [hoarsely]
A hundred and eighty million... Brady, what are you sitting there for? Get that bird!
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What's So Bad About Feeling Good? - Concerns Over Euphoria-Inducing Virus
Dr. Shapiro: [[People]
What this particular virus evidently does is cause changes in our behavior patterns. ] infected become euphoric, have a sense of well-being.
The Mayor: [[bird; [feel; [good]
Well, I'm not going to order the Police Commissioner to call out twenty-eight thousand cops to find some ] that makes people ] ].
Dr. Shapiro: [[People; [jobs; [voting]
But we have no way of knowing what it may lead to. ] could feel so good they'd quit their ], fly kites in Times Square, block traffic, uh... stop ]...
The Mayor: [picks up the phone]
Stop voting? Get me the Police Commissioner!
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All the President's Men - Debate Over Covering a Controversial Story
Foreign editor:
I don't think either Metropolitan or National should cover the story. I don't think we should cover the story, period. It's a dangerous story for this paper.
Bradlee:
How dangerous?
Foreign editor:
It's not that we're using unnamed sources that bothers me, or that everything we print the White House denies, or that almost no other papers are reprinting our stuff.
Simons:
What then?
Foreign editor: [[George McGovern|McGovern; [Hubert Humphrey|Humphrey; [w:Edmund Muskie|Muskie]
Look, there are two thousand reporters in this town, are there five on Watergate? When did the Washington Post suddenly get the monopoly on wisdom? Why would the Republicans do it? ]'s self-destructed just like ], ], the bunch of them. I don't believe this story. It doesn't make sense.
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