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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. – Samuel Butler

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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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It is bad enough to see one’s own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people’s rubbish fathered upon oneself. – Samuel Butler

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I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. On Medias Participation In Watergate – Patrick J. Buchanan

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Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. – Art Buchwald, 1969

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That ephemeral sheet,… the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman. – Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, July 1858

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The newspaper is the second-hand in the clock of history; and it is not only made of baser metal than those which point to the minute and the hour, but it seldom goes right. – Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), “On Some Forms of Literature,” The Art of

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