Yellow journalism is an actual term.. it means sensationalism via news that has been either exaggerated or downright distorted just to attract attention.
Town crier doesn't need to be the name of a particular paper either, though it could.. I think he's just bringing up an image of the real town criers, since they were the original sources of news (just shouting it on the streets) -- do you really trust the guy 'chilling with the village idiots' to give you the news?
Then the line about restaurants? Well I think it's saying anybody could be giving you that info. Guess you could skew it either way: either "common people have wisdom too" or "it might as well be my waiter giving me the info" ... not sure.
Yellow journalism is an actual term.. it means sensationalism via news that has been either exaggerated or downright distorted just to attract attention. Town crier doesn't need to be the name of a particular paper either, though it could.. I think he's just bringing up an image of the real town criers, since they were the original sources of news (just shouting it on the streets) -- do you really trust the guy 'chilling with the village idiots' to give you the news? Then the line about restaurants? Well I think it's saying anybody could be giving you that info. Guess you could skew it either way: either "common people have wisdom too" or "it might as well be my waiter giving me the info" ... not sure.