Summary:

The Author states 4 questions that has the reader thinking through the article. These questions are asked because of the content on the New York Times newspaper. He describes the newspaper as a sensational newspaper then mentions that any paper today is a collective work of art such as “a book” of an industrial man. This is the summary of his article, It is on it’s technical and mechanical side that the front page is linked to techniques of modern science and art. The newspaper is the visual technique of a Picasso art work, but the literary technique of James Joyce. They have provided new facts about the world, new intelligibility, and new insights into the universal fabric, meaning the hence forth this planet is a single city. Far from  making for irrationalism intolerable for the intelligent person. They demand a much higher level of personal and social integrity and greater exertions of intelligence. The past is made immediately available as a working mode for present political experiment. Cultural patterns are unrelated to another, but abruptly over layered in cubist/Picasso style. The huge landscape of the human family which is achieved by setting side by side disconnected items from China to Peru presents a daily image of complexity and similarity. Certain habits of the mind have led to a natural exaggeration about the value or necessity of correct views. Conditioned this way people have taught to accepted the opinions and attitudes of the press.

Key terms:

Independently: in a way that is free from outside control or influence.

Technique: a way of carrying out a particular task, especially the execution or performance of an artistic work or a scientific procedure.

Sensational:of an event, a person, or a piece of information) causing great public interest and excitement.

Condemnation: the expression of very strong disapproval; censure.

Panorama: an unbroken view of the whole region surrounding an observer.

Main Idea:

The main idea of this article is the author expressing his feeling on the New York Time magazine. Also he describes how he feels after reading some of the content in the newspaper.

Making Connections:

This article connects to how we view news over the internet. When we read news over the internet we don’t read ever article word for word, instead we find which article standout the most to us. But over the internet we don’t always get the full information like we have click into another link therefore we can get the full story. And in this article the author explains how the newspaper is like a work of Picasso you have to read information from all over the article to sum it all up and get the full affect what they are talking about.