“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction"

 

"I see by the papers that everything is all right." 

~ C. W. Anderson, published on January 3, 1930

“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another ; the public enjoys both, but it is more or less conscious of the difference.”

~ G.K. Chesterton, from his collection of essays All Things Considered [hat tip Rudy Havenstein]