Beware the Summer Snakes

Oscar Wilde observed: “Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.” I know there is nothing more cliché than a writer criticizing the press, but the era of viral news requires us to remember that the sensational kind of journalism that used to rear its ugly head in summer is now a daily fixture all year-round.

But especially in summer. Clickbait has proved Oscar Wilde right.