To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; . . . best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
Source: Referring to The New York Times; in The Enigma of Arrival, The Journey, 1987.
-- V S Naipaul, (Aug 17 1932-2018), West Indian novelist, journalist; He is noted for satirical portraits of vanishing culture; wrote A Bend in the River, 1976.