'16: All I Know is What I Read in the Papers, 2:03', '17: I, Rock Chump, 2:19' and '18: How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, 2:28' Summary and Analysis

In chapter sixteen, Klosterman responds to critics who bash the media by agreeing they should hate it, but notes they hate it for the wrong reasons. First, Klosterman notes, journalists really do not have agendas. Instead, he insists, bias in journalism often stems from whomever called a reporter back first. He believes most reporters spend so much time trying to eradicate emotion that they wind up with none, and therefore cannot possibly have any emotional bias when reporting. Instead, whomever calls the reporter back first ends up...