Friday, August 03, 2012

At The Mercy of Journalism

If journalism at one time seemed to be an appendix to culture, today, by contrast, culture finds itself at the mercy of journalism. It is part of a world dominated by journalism. The mass media decide who will be known and to what degree and according to which interpretation.

Milan Kundera, The Tragedy of Central Europe,
New York Review of Books
Volume 31, Number 7 · April 26, 1984

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