More democratian irony: Old Sayings Still Ring True

I have to agree with the basic thrust of this effort.

Here's some of the truest "old sayings" I've come across:

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819

I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), "Esquire", June 1960