What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
I don't even read the newspaper; I don't read that crap.
People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.
I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.
Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.