“I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.”

—  Alexis De Tocqueville, book Democracy in America

Book Two, Chapter VI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Two

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