Sunday, November 25, 2018
The Press
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), Scoop, Book II, Chapter 2:
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'There are plenty of disadvantages I grant you, but you are liked and respected. Ring people up any hour of the day or night, butt into their houses uninvited, make them answer a string of damn fool questions when they want to do something else — they like it. Always a smile and the best of everything for the gentlemen of the Press. But I don't feel it here. I damn well feel the exact opposite. I ask myself are we known, loved and trusted and the answer comes back, "No, Corker, you are not."'Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms, Book I, Chapter 1:
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'Why don't you send them some news?'
'I don't know any.'
'Well for heaven's sake invent some.'
'We don't get much time to read the papers.'
'No, I suppose you don't. I envy you. There's nothing in them but lies,' he added sadly. 'You can't believe a word they say.'
