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Matthew Parris

An age of bright new lights on ugly new estates

7 January 2017

9:00 AM

7 January 2017

9:00 AM

‘Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers,’ remarked the journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht, ‘is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.’ He was right, but the fault lies not with the newspapers. The problem arises from the idea of news.

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