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VII As to opinion, you have the same limitations. LEAN AS TO OPINION YOU HAVE THE SAME LIMITATIONS
a hare of their own, and which the public, as a whole, was determined to hear something about. Even to-day, apart from the war, there is a large element of this. There was (and is) a further check upon the artificiality of the news side of the Press; which is that Reality always comes into its own at last. You cannot, beyond a certain limit of time, burke reality. In a word, the Press must always largely deal with what are called "living issues." It can _boycott_ very successfully, and does so, with complete power. But it cannot artificially create unlimitedly the objects of "news." There is, then, this much truth in the old figment of the Press being "an organ of opinion," that it must in some degree (and that a large degree) present real matter for observation and debate. It can and does select. It can and does garble. But it has to do this always within certain limitations. These limitations have, I think, already been reached; but that is a matter which I argue more fully later on.  CHAPTER SEVEN OF THE FREE PRESS BY HILAIRE BELLOC RECORDING BY SHAME MC
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