A late friend of mine long nurtured a plan to write a brisk book on how to read a newspaper. Don't think he got round to it though.
It isn't just newspapers - all of them without exception - that have to be approached sidelong and scrutinized from every angle. It's any medium at all, radio, TV, official government announcements, anything.
We have to count ourselves lucky that we have so many sources of variously inaccurate and biased information. The media in countries run by tyrannies or despotisms are truly surreal. Pure Alice in Wonderland, and so severe and po-faced with it.
Basically people are just liars and toerags. All except thee and me of course.
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