Never believe the "I had no idea this was a record; I never read the newspapers" line that is often peddled.
It's on the cover of magazines, it's printed in our newspapers, lined up throughout ours News Feed on social media, hell it's even on the sides of buses and cabs in our cities.
"It might not be good for your ratings or your newspaper lines, but it's good for the game," Texas A&M Coach Gary Blair said.
Research published following the election suggested that newspaper lines on the election were reflected in the voting patterns of their readers.
50 years before the 1959 "discovery" by Gysin in the Beat Hotel in Paris saw similar collage experiments from high modernists such as T.S. Eliot ("The Waste Land") and John Dos Passos (USA trilogy) to avant-garde provocateur's pulling newspaper lines out of a hat at the Cabaret Voltaire nightclub in Zurich.
That would be a better argument than the old "family newspaper" line.
Gosse, in an often quoted passage of "Father and Son," writes of discovering, on a newspaper lining a box in the attic, some fragments of a thrilling serial, and of how he read them "kneeling on the bare floor, with indescribable rapture".
What made me think of it was, recently I was at my water dish, and I saw this crazy picture that looked sort of like me, on the newspaper lining this stupid wire-mesh floor of the cage under the dish, I mean.
"I think it would be totally wrong to cave in to the (BBC chief) Mark Thompson, Channel 4, Guardian (newspaper) line that this represents a substantial change of control given that we all know Sky is controlled by News Corp anyway".
For the time being, it seems market forces have ensured that most newspapers' editorial lines have stopped short of becoming "pro-China".
