“Journalism largely consists in saying ‘Lord Jones Dead’ to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”
G.K. Chesterton, “The Purple Wig”
Archives for November 2011
TT: Almanac
“Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.”
G.K. Chesterton, “On the Cryptic and the Elliptic”