#2,829

By denouncing corruption, press publicity spreads it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453

#2,470

A journalist is someone for whom it suffices, in order to speak about a book, to know of the book’s topic only what the book he is speaking about says.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 397

#2,261

The newspaper allots the modern citizen his morning stultification, the radio his afternoon stultification, the television his evening stultification.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 367

#2,206

Publicity does not curb a single evil. On the contrary, it multiplies the harmful consequences of events.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 359

#2,121

The newspaper collects the previous day’s garbage in order to feed it to us for breakfast.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 346

#2,088

Vulgarity colonized the earth.
Its weapons have been the television, the radio, the press.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 338

#1,754

News stories are the substitute for truths.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,649

“Current events” designates the sum total of what is insignificant.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 276

#1,586

The abuse of the printing press is due to the scientific method and the expressionist aesthetic.
To the former because it allows any mediocre person to write a correct and useless monograph, and to the latter because it legitimizes the effusions of any fool.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 264

#1,582

The desire to be informed is the dissolvent of culture.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 263

#1,564

The press does not intend to inform the reader but rather to persuade the reader that it informs him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 261

#1,555

The press always chooses what to praise with impeccably bad taste.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 259

#1,505

Journalists are the plebs’ courtiers.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 253

#1,452

Newspaper reports are the modern substitute for experience.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 246

#1,118

The sentences handed down on the Day of Judgment will be less categorical and emphatic than those handed down by any journalist on any topic.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 197

#1,066

Liberalism has not fought for the freedom, but for the irresponsibility, of the press.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 189

#903

Reading the newspaper degrades whomever it does not make into a brute.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 164

#884

Journalists and politicians do not know how to distinguish between the development of an idea and the lengthening of a sentence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 161

#658

The three enemies of literature are: journalism, sociology, ethics.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 121

#647

The contemporary artist’s ambition is for society to repudiate him and the press to praise him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 120