My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources.
~ Peter Landesman
The trains that travel the Chunnel are massive machines. The Eurostars are bullet-shaped and a quarter-mile long. They are pulled by a 136,000-pound locomotive and move in the open air at 185 m.p.h. and through the tunnel at 100 m.p.h.
We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.
People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.
