[grey_whiskers]

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.

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“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 highbrow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.”

[Sam Gamgee]

Heh, awesome find, probably been 20 + years since I read it.

I will post it next time on Facebook when liberals claim the “educated” vote liberal.