That sounds very similar to Ezra Pound's "Literature is news that stays news." I prefer Phil Graham's "News is the first draft of History": > So let us today

That sounds very similar to Ezra Pound's "Literature is news that stays news." I prefer Phil Graham's "News is the first draft of History": > So let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of history that will never really be completed about a world we can never really understand