> I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something

> I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time... General facts may indeed be collected from them... but no details can be relied on. 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 This is not new. Don't subject your mind to this dreck.