https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_speechs29.html https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_sp... "I will add, that the

https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_speechs29.html https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_sp... "I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false." Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 14 June 1807, Works 10:417--18 (sigh - sometimes people notice, but not much can be done, and trying only seems to make things worse, ahem, "fact-checking", cough ... perhaps we should lower expectations, and not demand that advertisement padding double up as a source of truth.)