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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, read more
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable
All I know is what I read in the papers.
All I know is what I read in the papers.
Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a
managed or well-conducted one.
Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a
managed or well-conducted one.
Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.