Jefferson ambivalent on newspapers

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) made two remarkable observations about newspapers. One is widely cited, including your “Thought of the day” item on April 13, the other almost totally neglected.

Your Jefferson quote, for years the theme of National Newspaper Week, goes like this:

“If it were left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

Jefferson’s second observation about newspapers came after two years as president.

From The Arizona Republic . Link

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