Easily Led

 “It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the stupid people — who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations — do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper, and there is where the harm lies.”

—Mark Twain (1835-1910), author, journalist & lecturer, “License of the Press,” speech, March 31, 1873. Image: Lloyd DeGrane.

 

Editorial Comment: And then came Faux.

 

 

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November’s Senior News is delicious. Check out “Especially Now, Food Is Family.” 

 

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