The fact that all three participants are in general agreement on the point at issue does not dull this spirited session. JF: "The particular thing which drives me crazy is the complex of behaviors summed up by the word handling. Ninety per cent of the instinct of powerful political reporters is, when any issue comes up, the subject doesn't become the issue itself but the handling of the issue: not Chechnya, but Yeltsin's handling of Chechnya, and Clinton's handling of the budget. And handling becomes this great sluice into which all attention goes as opposed to the fundamentals of the question." ... FR: "If you have a bunch of people who behave like clowns on television on these Sunday-morning shows where they're yelling at each other, and you see it's So-and-So from Time or the New York Times, the Washington Post--it doesn't matter-- ... you think: Well, they're all behaving like idiots, and how can we trust any of their institutions for news?"