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No other group of writers is as subject to direction, pressures, taboos, theories, and doctrines as is the group which writes for children. Some of these pressures are the result of the old honest profit-and-loss motive and we are told how to write what will sell. Much of the pressure comes from a new shibboleth with which the present era is very much concerned, namely "Mass Communication" which I define, in my private mind, as "It doesn't matter how little you say or how shabby the content if o
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― Summoned by books: essays and speeches by Frances Clarke Sayers
― Summoned by books: essays and speeches by Frances Clarke Sayers
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies—the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infin
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― Brave New World Revisited
― Brave New World Revisited
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