Day: 26 March 2021

By Sir Hardly Anyone Newspaper men and blogging “outlet” scribblers mostly dwell in Docklands public houses, working in a putrid atmosphere of their own making. They have an insufficiency of light, a total lack of ventilation, a lot of chocolate cakes with cream which junior reporters are forced to down in one, and an aloofness …

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By Tony Attwood In the theory of cognitive dissonance, if we try and hold two contradictory beliefs or ideas at the same time we feel discomfort.  So we  attempt to reduce this dissonance by ignoring one of those ideas, even if it is obviously true. Thus journalists and some bloggers overcome this by removing one …

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