The quotation below, found at
Notable Quotes and represented as coming from Oscar Wilde's
The Critic as Artist, certainly sounds like something Oscar Wilde might have said. Wilde could be speaking about much of what passes for journalism today, the practice of quoting "opposing sides" without objective analysis, the practice of reporting both politics and government as though they were varieties of sport, the more aggressive and emotional the blocks and jabs and feints and punts the more exciting the reportage.
There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
The quotation below, found at Notable Quotes and represented as coming from Oscar Wilde's The Critic as Artist, certainly sounds like something Oscar Wilde might have said. Wilde could be speaking about much of what passes for journalism today, the practice of quoting "opposing sides" without objective analysis, the practice of reporting both politics and government as though they were varieties of sport, the more aggressive and emotional the blocks and jabs and feints and punts the more exciting the reportage.
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