MR NASH AND THE PRESS
Sir, —Under “Mr Nash and the Press” on August 1, you quote Mr Nash’s-statement, “The newspapers do not actually lie; they make you believe a lie," and ask. “just how the newspapers perform this extraordinary feat.” It is done by stating categorically the ignorant beliefs of uninformed men and women, thus giving such beliefs the authority of the written word. For example, in the same editorial, you state that the recent strike period was “a time when the Government and the whole community were engaged in a bitter struggle to preserve law and order ...” I was not so engaged nor was any acquaintance of mine, and yet you say the “whole community.” Furthermore, was there at any time even half the community struggling bitterly either for or against law ana order?—Yours, etc., a „ HA. August 2, 1951.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26491, 4 August 1951, Page 3
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