[lit-ideas] Re: news?
- From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 12:41:42 +0900
On 2005/05/06, at 11:45, Andy Amago wrote:
>
> Ratings, maybe? People don't want to hear bad news.
Au contraire. People love bad news=81\so long as it is safely irrelevant =
=20
to themselves, something titillating but also agreeably "There but =20
for the grace of God" (It's so nice to be among the elect). Bad AND =20
trivial, that's the trick.
John McCreery=
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