"Modern man … when he looks at his daily newspaper … sees the events of the day refracted through a medium which colors them as effectively as the cosmology of the medieval scientist determined his view of the starry heavens. The newspaper is a man-made cosmos of the world of events around us at the time. For the average reader it is a construct with a set of significances which he no more thinks of examining than did his pious forbear of the thirteenth century—whom he pities for sitting in medieval darkness—think of questioning the cosmology. This modern man, too, lives under a dome, whose theoretical aspect has been made to harmonize with a materialistic conception of the world. And he employs its conjunctions and oppositions to explain the occurrences of his time with all the confidence of the now supplanted discipline of astrology."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (Chicago: 1948), pp. 93-94.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Newspapers
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Newspapers
37 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Newspapers →
Related Quotes
"Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois, meaning that the busy, the …"
"A thousand newspapers vulgarise knowledge, debase aesthetical appreciation, democratise success and make impossible a…"
"Live your life, and bear fruits.- DIKIRR."
"If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the fee…"
"Covers Dixie Like the Dew."
"Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the m…"
"To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one’s ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity."
"The advertising industry almost exclusively underwrites mass media in the United States. Newspapers obtain 75 to 80 p…"
"Like the man in the fairytale who turned everything he touched into gold, so with me everything is turned into newspa…"
"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."