Reply by the U.S. President Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted so as to be most useful, I should answer, 'by restraining it to true facts and sound principles only.' Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. 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 and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.
Lenin's Decalogue "Manual to Seize Control of a Society" Lenin's Decalogue "Manual to Seize Control of a Society" which he used in the 1917 Russian Re-Revolution (The October Surprise) usurping control from the original Russian Revolution which occurred earlier in the spring of that year.
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Food for thought.
It's interesting how even farther it's been pushed today. Not only do we have editorialized headlines and articles written by "journalists" with an obvious agenda, we're blasted with distractions in the form of ads, gossip, and information that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. All in the name of greed.
There was an image on the front page of /r/all a few hours ago, iirc. From the 1917 spring Russian Revolution, and it was a celebratory post comparing the Woman's March to that. It's amazing to me that some people know so little about history, and just dismiss it as boring. There are some scarily accurate comparisons to be made today, and if we don't learn from history we're doomed to repeat it.