ARROGANT ASSUMPTIONS
We must get rid of our arrogant assumption that it is the masses who can be led by the nose. As far as I can make out, the shoe is on the other foot. The only people who are really the dupes of their favourite newspapers are the intelligentsia. It is they who read leading articles: the poor read the sporting news, which is mostly true. — C. S. Lewis From Present Concerns: Essays, by C.S. Lewis, “Private Bates” (1944), p. 49
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