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Indeed Edgar Allan Poe had a thing or two to say about newspapers. https://poestories.com/quotes.php https://poestories.com/quotes.php (and scroll down a bit).
by butterisgood 7mo ago
Indeed Edgar Allan Poe had a thing or two to say about newspapers.
https://poestories.com/quotes.php https://poestories.com/quotes.php (and scroll down a bit).
> “We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation — to make a point — than to further the cause of truth.”
- PearlRiver 7mo agoWe as citizens are supposed to keep ourselves informed and vote on things. Very few of us can fly all over the world to see things with our own two eyes so we have to outsource this fact finding. Priests, journalists, the goddamn CIA- they all have agendas.