• "The new method of journalism is to offer so many comments or, at least, secondary circumstances that there is actually no room left for the original facts."
—Illustrated London News, Nov. 6, 1909.
• "If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will find that no medium is admitted between violence and evasion. You will have no answer except slanging or silence. A modern editor must not have that eager ear that goes with the honest tongue. He may be deaf and silent; and that is called dignity. Or he may be deaf and noisy; and that is called slashing journalism. In neither case is there any controversy; for the whole object of modern party combatants is to charge out of earshot."
—What's Wrong with the World, Chap. III—The New Hypocrite. (1910)
~G.K. Chesterton
—Illustrated London News, Nov. 6, 1909.
• "If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will find that no medium is admitted between violence and evasion. You will have no answer except slanging or silence. A modern editor must not have that eager ear that goes with the honest tongue. He may be deaf and silent; and that is called dignity. Or he may be deaf and noisy; and that is called slashing journalism. In neither case is there any controversy; for the whole object of modern party combatants is to charge out of earshot."
—What's Wrong with the World, Chap. III—The New Hypocrite. (1910)
~G.K. Chesterton
