Poor public!
Feb. 1st, 2009 08:39 pmIn an effort to counter Ellen's hilarious-but-depressing posts mocking Twilight, here is a post about a good book. I finished reading Anthony Trollope's The Warden yesterday, and had to post the following quote:
[Background: Tom Towers is editor in chief ofthe London Times the Jupiter, which Trollope has spent the last chapter busily accusing of yellow journalism.]
The discretion of Tom Towers was boundless: there was no contradicting what he said, no arguing against such propositions. He took such high ground that there was no getting on it. "The public is defrauded," said he, "whenever private considerations are allowed to have weight." Quite true, thou greatest oracle of the middle of the nineteenth century, thou sententious proclaimer of the purity of the press--the public is defrauded when it is purposely misled. Poor public! how often is it misled! against what a world of fraud has it to contend!
The whole second half of the book is snarktastic. Such fun.
[Background: Tom Towers is editor in chief of
The discretion of Tom Towers was boundless: there was no contradicting what he said, no arguing against such propositions. He took such high ground that there was no getting on it. "The public is defrauded," said he, "whenever private considerations are allowed to have weight." Quite true, thou greatest oracle of the middle of the nineteenth century, thou sententious proclaimer of the purity of the press--the public is defrauded when it is purposely misled. Poor public! how often is it misled! against what a world of fraud has it to contend!
The whole second half of the book is snarktastic. Such fun.
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