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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.
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.
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.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder read more
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by read more
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
All I know is what I read in the papers
All I know is what I read in the papers
Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great read more
Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the New York Herald Tribune, history itself is denied a devoted witness.
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
A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.
A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.
