Thursday, 26 October 2023

“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]

 

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