Into the Wardrobe

Here's the relevant bit from my notes at the Sydney conference (I'm sure Doug says very similar things, very often - there are only so many questions people ask, and therefore a lot of similar answers):

Q on Jack and music:

In later years, he didn't listen to music at all; he said he had grown out of it, and was embarrassed that he had ever liked Wagner!
Jack never read newspapers, didn't listen to the radio, didn't have TV. The only media was outgoing (reporters asking Jack about something) – only in the kitchen, where the gardener read a newspaper and Joy did the crosswords! He never bothered about about politics, saw that they had little to do with real life.

I've heard he did not like the popular press--newspapers and popular magazines--because these publications had so misrepresented World War I and functioned as propaganda organs for the British Government during that time. Like Orwell, Lewis distrusted the popular press. He once wrote to an American girl who asked his advice on how to become a writer, and one of things he said was not read magazines.