In England, Journalism, not, except in a few well-known instances, having been carried to such excesses of brutality, is still a great factor, a really remarkable power. The tyranny that it proposes to exercise over people’s private lives seems to me to be quite extraordinary. The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
A quote from “The soul of man under socialism”, an essay by Oscar Wilde.
So many of the things Wilde accuses journalism of are what journalists accuse social media of now…
Via Stephen Fry’s Blessay – http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/10/19/poles-politeness-and-politics-in-the-age-of-twitter/
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