With Tolstoy's entire philosophy, one must take into account that Tolstoy believes that the artist must be sincere and that is the most important in creating art. If you look at it in a certain perspective, a mother giving birth to a child is art if she is truly sincere about the child. Nature is, in a way art, because it is creating and it does so with such care. But art is not so easy as to create, say, this blog post, according to Tolstoy, we must be extremely sincere about it. However, debatably, conveying the emotional fear of the boy in the story about the boy and the wolf is also art and is difficult. In my experience, some pieces of art, principally literature, do not convey emotions as well as they should to be considered real art.
Newspapers are not art. They are merely reporting information with very little emotional content. It is up to the readers to put emotion into the newspaper articles. From what Tolstoy says (or, more specifically, does not say) about the reader's perspective, there should be emotion felt from the art and emotion should be not applied to the art.
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