{"id":529,"date":"2007-07-16T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2007-07-16T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T21:06:00","slug":"ever-wondered-why-the-news-doesnt-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/07\/ever-wondered-why-the-news-doesnt-makes-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever wondered why the news doesn’t makes sense?"},"content":{"rendered":"

B<\/span>ecause it doesn’t have to, that’s why. And if you don’t believe me – here is the Saturday Review<\/span><\/span> from 1861: <\/p>\n

What does it matter if the Times<\/span><\/span>, which is the organ of so many of us, contradicts itself and changes sides from day to day? Do not most people contradict themselves?<\/p>\n

Is the opinion we form this morning on the telegram which arrives from Paris so necessarily true or fixed that it may not be shaken tomorrow? <\/p>\n

Men learn their intelligence from hour to hour, and they must generalize upon it as it arrives. The process of reflection and digestion goes on in public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Postscript<\/span>: BTW, in case you wonder what minor Victorian quibble the Times<\/span><\/span> was flip-flopping over, it was British intervention in the American Civil War…<\/p>\n

(“Leading journals, from the London Times<\/span> to the Saturday Review<\/span> and Punch<\/span>, either sneer at the North or urge the claims of the rebels to the independence which they pretend to seek…” Harper’s<\/span>, June 1861)<\/p>\n

(“[C]onsider the London press! At its head stands the Times<\/span>, whose leading editor, Bob Lowe, was formerly a demagogue in Australia, where he agitated for separation from England. He is a subordinate member of the Cabinet, a kind of minister for education, and a mere creature of Palmerston.” Karl Marx, Die Presse<\/span><\/span>, 1861)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because it doesn’t have to, that’s why. And if you don’t believe me – here is the Saturday Review from 1861: What does it matter if the Times, which is the organ of so many of us, contradicts itself and changes sides from day to day? Do not most people contradict themselves? Is the opinion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","tag-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}