Monday, March 1, 2010

"Eyewitness to History" - The Folio Society

Robert FOX, who edited this compendium, spoke on the BBC today. In talking about eyewitness accounts today, he expresses concern that we receive so many of them without filters today that our sense of truth and accuracy is being badly damaged. Once again, a value of the printed newspaper if it does its job well. There is something about the "sorting out" process in print that simply has greater certainty and surely permanence associated with it.

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