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“The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result.”

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Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus (April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936) was an Austrian writer and critic, known for his satirical and critical writing style. He was one of the most important Austrian writers of the early 20th century, particularly renowned for his sharp commentary on society, politics, and culture. more

“The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”

Men Two Age Desire Wish Term Responsibility Lord Policy Acceptance Paper Ordinary Newspapers Likes Propaganda Dislike Engines Papers Prerogative Harlots Likes And Dislikes

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.”

People Book Facts Democracy Office News Tasks Sacred Incredibles Determine Newspapers Propaganda Suspicion Clue Rumor Hopes And Fears Medley

Author:Walter Lippmann

“I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.”

Believe I Believe Voice Presses Stupidity Propaganda Spite Truthful Unbearable Announcers

Author:George Orwell

“All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.”

Lying Propaganda Telling The Truth

Author:George Orwell

“Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.”

Country Doubt Produce Intellectual Intense Propaganda Conformity Superficial Persecution Incessant

Book:Literary Studies: Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, T

Source: Literary Studies: Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, T

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