Lis Wiehl (1961) American legal scholar
Source: Waking Hours: Book 1 in East Salem Trilogy with Pete Nelson (Thomas Nelson), p. 159
“A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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