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The newspaper is the second-hand in the clock of history; and it i

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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