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storm out there. You could go home.”
    â€œYou could go home too,” Jack Bullard said. “It doesn’t matter for either of us. We walk. I want you to look at these photographs.”
    â€œThey’re very nice photographs. They’re just photographs of silly people.”
    â€œPhotographs of silly people fetch a lot of money these days. I’ve got one I haven’t developed yet of Arrow Nor-mand falling into her car dead drunk and probably worse not an hour and a half ago, and I’ll bet you anything I could sell it to the tabloids for a few thousand dollars. And Arrow Normand isn’t even a big deal anymore.”
    â€œWas Arrow Normand ever a big deal?”
    Jack Bullard sighed. “These people may be trivial, Linda, but they’re not unimportant. At least, they’re not unimportant to the people who have money to spend on photographs of famous people. And we’ve got lots of photographs of famous people. If you don’t want to run them in the Home News—”
    â€œI don’t.”
    â€œAt least consider the possibility of selling them to somebody who does want to run them. These people are here. We get the pictures nobody else gets—”
    â€œHow do we do that, Jack? I’ve been meaning to ask you.”
    â€œI just don’t look like a paparazzo. Because I’m not one. Although lots of people probably have the same pictures, they just get them on the cameras from their cell phones and they’re not very good quality. Mine are excellent quality. She wasn’t wearing any underwear.”
    â€œWho wasn’t?”
    â€œArrow Normand. She had on a mini skirt cut up to, well, wherever, and she wasn’t wearing any underwear. I’ve got at least one picture in my camera nobody could print anywhere. Except they do, you know, they show them on tele vision with the wrong place just sort of fuzzed out. It’s really incredible what they’ll do on MTV these days.”
    â€œWhen I was growing up, the Home News used to run society pages. Parties, you know, and debutante things. Nobody seems to do any of that anymore.”
    â€œNobody seems to care,” Jack said. “Look, I know what you think and I see your point. These are not stellar examples of human beings. They’re not distinguished except by their publicity and they haven’t accomplished anything you’d say was important.”
    â€œMost of them haven’t accomplished anything at all,” Linda pointed out. “I mean, you can say what you want about the old robber barons, but they built industries. They provided jobs for millions of people. They were good for the economy. What you’re asking me to do is to run stories on people who—”
    â€œOn people other people want to read about,” Jack said. “It’s no use, Linda. Not everybody has your high-minded idea about what should be news, and not everybody is more interested in George Steiner and Steven Pinker than in Arrow Normand and Marcey Mandret. Maybe they should be, but they’re not.”
    â€œIt’s like high school. The people who are accomplishingsomething are invisible, and the people who are visible are all, well…. You see what I mean.”
    â€œI do see what you mean. But this is a good story, Linda, and we should use it. And if we don’t use it, we should at least sell the pictures to a tabloid that’s willing to pay money for it. But I say we use it, because it really is a good story.”
    â€œArrow Normand falling into her car dead drunk is a good story.”
    â€œShe didn’t just fall into her car. She was with that guy she’s been all over, one of the camera crew people she took up with. Mark Anderman. That’s it. They were together.”
    â€œI thought they were always together.”
    â€œThey are, but this time they were fighting. She kept kicking him and screaming at him that he was a