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Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Tocqueville on the "New Media"

I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.
--Alexis de Tocqueville