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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1987). “World Outside the Window: The Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth”, p.113, New Directions Publishing
When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.