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[In a newspaper] most trivial matters are given considerable additional intensity by being translated into prose at all. That is why no account of anything can be "truthful" in a newspaper.
From Cliché to Archetype
with Wilfred Watson (1970), p 198
Quote #5034
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1970
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News
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Truth
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