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		Q U O T E--O F--T H E--D A Y Yeah, but what kind of tree do you want to be? “By my lights, Ms. Walters embodies most of the detestable, downmarket and discouraging tendencies in mass media today, most notably the gospel that celebrity should be the measure of all things, even if infanticide is the basis for that celebrity. She is in no way identified with print media in any form; indeed, a case can be made that the journalism she represents is the enemy of committed, values-driven newspapering. To invite her to address this occasion is akin to asking Lucifer to celebrate a jubilee Mass in St. Peter's.” -- New York Observer writer Michael Thomas, in a letter to Observer owner Arthur Carter, on why he won't be attending the New York weekly's 10th anniversary party, at which Barbara Walters is scheduled to be the keynote speaker. The letter was reprinted in Harper's Magazine and quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle. SALON | Feb. 26, 1998