“Many harebrained interpretations were also widely available, especially in weekly newspapers.”
Carl Sagan book Contact
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 13 (p. 216)
“Playing the government off newspapers, and newspapers against each other, still does not compare with the power of the World Wide Web.”
[Noam, Cohen, The New York Times, April 18, 2010, What Would Daniel Ellsberg Do With the Pentagon Papers Today?, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/business/media/19link.html, October 30, 2014]
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