There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.
I think it was “That Hideous Strength” that Lewis declared that the average Englishman doubts everything he read in the news except the Sports Page. So back then in the 40s most Brits were intelligent enough to no it was all BS. Then came the ascendancy of the BBC and for some reason Brits stupidly thought Mother Corp could be trusted.
Why you fool, it’s the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything
The odor of Mendacity permeates the newsrooms of America.
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