Polls are probably the least factual representation of any subject...
I care not for neither the "left" nor "right", and I have a healthy dose of discontempt for the mainstream media.
I'll let greater minds than me do the talking:
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
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http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/03/jefferson_again.html)
"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."
H. L. Mencken
"Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust."
Charles Baudelaire
"America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men."
Alexander Graham Bell
"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."
George Orwell
"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
Henry Fielding
"Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction."
Adlai E. Stevenson
"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
"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed."
Mark Twain
âNewspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilizationâ
George Bernard Shaw
âEverything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledgeâ
Erwin Knoll