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Versions of the truth.(The media)

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| October 01, 2006 | Bowman, James | COPYRIGHT 2006 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Here, in this little Bay, Full of tumultuous life and great repose, Where, twice a day, The purposeless, glad ocean comes and goes, Under high cliff, and far from the huge town, I sit me down.

For want of me the world's course will not fail; When all its work is done, the lie shall rot; The truth is great, and shall prevail, When none cares whether it prevail or not.

There is some consolation, I suppose, in the fact that Coventry Patmore's "Magna Est Veritas" was written long before today's hype industry bestrode the world like the malign colossus it has since become--and so the poem must be supposed to describe a sad truth about the human condition ...

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