http://businesstime.disqus.com/enWed, 18 Mar 2009 12:12:56 -0000http://blubonobo.tumblr.com/post/87583802#comment-7317456<p>I love this quote because media people love to take it out of context. It means the only thing that Jefferson hates more than newspapers is government, so a free press is necessary to keep government in check. I think we would have gotten along. But if they knew the whole story, I think they would be more reluctant to put him on their walls. Here are some more quotes from TJ on the subject:</p><p>"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."</p><p>"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper"</p><p>"Our printers raven on the agonies of their victims, as wolves do on the blood of the lamb."</p><p>"As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers."</p><p>"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."</p><p></p>ErikWed, 18 Mar 2009 12:12:56 -0000