In the end, it is hard not to believe. Americans may be undereducated, lazy, and disorganized, but they do one thing better than any people on the face of the earth, and this is watch television. You can tell lies to them and they'll never know. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to. Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives.
And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad. Nothing looks more neat and regular than a newspaper, with its parallel columns, its mechanical printing, its detailed facts, its responsible polysyllablic leading articles. People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.