Aug 11, 2023
Amen! I became really aware of that "outdated" feel at the start of the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Everyone was watching that one live on CNN, and you'd look at the paper the next morning, and it instantly looked like day-old bread. Phil Graham called newspapers the first draft of history.
And yet, I can read a Fulton Sheen book written before WWII and find it incredibly insightful and ahead of its time.