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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 bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. – Eric Sevareid, The Press and the People, 1959

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If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators. – Patrick J. Buchanan

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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. – Spiro T. Agnew

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Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. – George Bernard Shaw

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They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others. – Saint Augustine of Hippo

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