Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality
Author: first_name: Stuart
last_name: Mason
Language: English
Year: 1908

“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?”<br><br>“We are dominated by journalism.... Journalism governs for ever and ever.”[/i]<br><br>One of the nastiest of the British tabloids was founded a year too late to join in the moral panic generated  to accompany Oscar Wilde’s court  appearances in 1895.  Yet there was no shortage of hypocritical journalists posing as moral arbiters to the nation, then as now.<br><