“Sentimentalize everything, with cynicism just beneath. In
place of the full life, or the good life, or the hard life of experience, fill
the mind with a phantasmagoria where easy wealth, sordid luxury, scandal,
degeneracy and drunken folly swirl … in an intoxicating vulgarity.”
Tell me, was this critic describing the yellow tabloid
newspapers of the early 20th century or the cable news shows of the
early 21st century?
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