“But, of course, the essential quest has been for news. This is the Unholy Grail, the ultimate fantasy on which the whole structure of the media is founded. Shouted down a telephone, tapped out on a teleprinter, carried breathlessly to the stone to catch the edition, beamed by satellite through the stratosphere, whispered confidentially in a favoured ear, set forth in communiqués for one and all, spoken into microphones, recorded on film and video—the nothingness of news. ‘Ten thousand people shouting the same thing make it false, even if it happens to be true,’ Kirkegaard says. News is ten million people induced to think the same thing, which makes it a thousand times more false in the unlikely event of its happening to be true” (Malcolm Muggeridge, Christ and the Media, p. 33).
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