A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-injustices
A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-injustices - meaning Summary
News as Public Spectacle
Crane's poem condemns the newspaper as a distorted public institution that sensationalizes and trivializes human suffering. It likens the press to a court, market, and game where unfair judgments, commercialized wisdom, and perverse rewards prevail. The paper spreads half-truths and loud tales, shaping mass opinion while celebrating error and repeating ancient foolishness. Ultimately the newspaper becomes a feckless chronicle that amplifies vanity and collective stupidity rather than truth.
Read Complete AnalysesA newspaper is a collection of half-injustices Which, bawled by boys from mile to mile, Spreads its curious opinion To a million merciful and sneering men, While families cuddle the joys of the fireside When spurred by tale of dire lone agony. A newspaper is a court Where every one is kindly and unfairly tried By a squalor of honest men. A newspaper is a market Where wisdom sells its freedom And melons are crowned by the crowd. A newspaper is a game Where his error scores the player victory While another's skill wins death. A newspaper is a symbol; It is feckless life's chronicle, A collection of loud tales Concentrating eternal stupidities, That in remote ages lived unhaltered, Roaming through a fenceless world.
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