Happiness & Newspapers

 

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”

—Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Founding Father, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd U.S. President, and lover & hater of the press, Letter to Tench Coxe, 1794.

 

• Editorial Comment: By this measure, most Americans these days should be ecstatic.

 

PeezPIX 

Thar She Blows, Up Close & Personal Off Elk Head, September 2020

  

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
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