Thu, 16 Oct 2008

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Jefferson on journalism

The more things change...

TO JAMES MONROE

Monticello, Jan. 18. 1819

You oblige me infinitely, dear Sir, by sending me the Congressional documents in pamphlet form. For as they come out by piece-meal in the newspapers I never read them. And indeed I read no newspapers now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, as being the only truths we can rely on in a newspaper.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.—Lord Peter Wimsey

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