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On 3/6/2021 2:32 AM, Intelligent Party wrote:
"were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government
without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not
hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter."
- Thomas Jefferson, 1787
"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be
limited without being lost."
- Thomas Jefferson to Dr. J. Currie, 1786
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them: inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he
whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors." - Thomas Jefferson
1807, 20 years later
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."
- Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, June 11, 1807
"The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very
first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to
decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or
newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to
prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers, and be capable fo reading them."
- Thomas Jefferson to Colonel Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them: inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he
whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors."
- Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, and other citizens of Hartford,
Feb. 11, 1807
"Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this.
Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be
very short."
- To John Norvell, June 11, 1807
Newspapers way back in the early 1800's were known to have downright
lies and headlines that would be referred to today as "click bait".
Similar to what you'd expect in the National Enquirer magazine, but
worse. Gossip and downright libel... It's how readers were drawn in.
News media has drastically improved in reliability since then. I'd
trust the AP and my local paper's reporting any day over CNN, MSNBC, and
other liberal media outlets. Same goes for FOX news. Cable news is
extremely biased. Don't trust a thing that you read online either.
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