Episode 2 features the 1871 essay by Mark Twain entitled "Journalism in Tennessee". Twain's delightful use of the understatement is on full display as he describes the day his character came south from a job, fell on hard times, and left that afternoon. Like most of his other writings, Twain observations are pretty timeless, and a lot of similarities can drawn with regard to how a news story is given a "slant" by an editor.