"Freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments."
-- George Mason, 1776
"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
Notice how all the newspaper optimists are old folks? This is not a coincidence. I remember hearing of a similar argument when those new-fangled mechanical carriages began replacing the horse-drawn buggies. Technological advance cannot be stopped by stubbornness.
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Notice how all the newspaper optimists are old folks? This is not a coincidence. I remember hearing of a similar argument when those new-fangled mechanical carriages began replacing the horse-drawn buggies. Technological advance cannot be stopped by stubbornness.
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