Words of Wisdom: Thomas Jefferson on Newspapers
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the US, a founding father, main author of the Declaration of Independence, horticulturist, statesman, architect, archaeologist, inventor, and founder of the University of Virginia. Here are some of his thoughts on newspapers:
- The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers
- Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe
- I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it
- Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper
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Posted by DDFD at 5/29/2009 12:14 AM 
Categories: Words of Wisdom, Personal Philosophy
Tags: Thomas Jefferson Quotes Personal Philosophy
Categories: Words of Wisdom, Personal Philosophy
Tags: Thomas Jefferson Quotes Personal Philosophy
These are wonderful comments on the propaganda and slanted views that are regularly found in newspapers. John Naisbitt observed in Megatrends that the New York Times has always had 18 pages in the front section, for years and years on end, no matter how much news there was to print. And, Mark Twain reminded us that the man who doesn't read the newspaper is uninformed, and the one who does is misinformed.
Clair
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
This would mean that an illiterate person is better educated than a newspaper reader. I disagree with St Thomas on this one.
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