end of satire

The public opinion of the media does not run high in the early years of 2000, yet a severe attack on journalists for distorting or fabricating the news in 1937, before the most misreported series of events of the century, WWII and it’s causes. It was written by a member disreputable profession, who with this book, and 6 others established themselves as perhaps the most satiric novelist in the history of English literature. In Scoop, Waugh tells …

…in England, to which he returns thoroughly disillusioned with news reporting and determined to resume his nature column. Since the publication of Scoop life has so often imitated art that was once preposterous event of news creating an event has become way to common. Evelyn Waugh may prove to have been our last great satirist and there will be no room for exaggeration when our modern customs and institutions have become parodies of their originals.