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>It's interesting that this article was written 10 years ago. Oh, you will definitely enjoy this quote! Try to guess when it was written. (Warning: there is a

• kelnos 3y ago
  I suppose I was primed to believe it was an old quote, so I assumed somewhere in the mid or late 1800s. But Thomas Jefferson! Heh. I guess this shouldn't be surprising: news publishers have to pay their staff and keep the lights on, and always to some extent will be biased toward journalism that sells. But also consider that Jefferson is on the side of the state: even if he was in favor of freedom of the press, I'm sure he had his own biases that made him think journalists could be annoying, at best.