If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.
So people that read the New York Times are not gonna have the slightest idea what really happened here. So not only are the Drive-Bys themselves a little dense and not curious and uninformed, so are all of their viewers and readers.
Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the public the full story.
... as an observer of the actual condition of Egyptian society, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that popular government, as we understand it, is for a longer time than anyone can foresee at present out of the question. The people neither comprehend it nor desire it. They would come to singular grief if they had it.
1st Viscount Milner
Booboisie
