Then there is this:
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day
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I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.
— Thomas Jefferson, 1807
Found those quotes at the following site, which inveatigates whether Mark Twain or someone else is the author of the famous quote “If You Don’t Read the Newspaper You Are Uninformed, If You Do Read the Newspaper You Are Misinformed”:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/12/03/misinformed/
I was on Wall Street in the 1980's and was an M&A Associate on the large oil mergers that were occurring (Conoco, Gulf Oil, Mobil). Because of that I was involved, and sat, in meetings that were front page news on the WSJ and NYT.
I would read the stories of what was "happening" in meetings/deals that I sat in, and worked on, and scratch my head thinking that was not what happened. What I concluded is that the journalists weren’t purposely trying to spin the facts, but instead were tasked with piecing them together from a number of sources which had their own agendas and this often led to inaccuracies.
Taught me a lesson very early on to be suspect of what I read in the news. Not because the news was trying to be deceptive, or manipulative, but simply because from the outside looking in it is tough to get it "right" with many sources spinning what they believe.
Fast forward to today. My sense today is that much of the news still runs afoul of what I experienced/learned in the '80's. However, there is a not insignificant percentage of news outlets/reporters that are (appear) to be purposely manipulating the "facts" for political gain.
That change has caused the rise of "Fake News" moniker, which is a significant problem for the Fourth Estate: and, if we don’t purge it is a significant risk to US Democracy.
And coming full circle is why in many instances I no longer want to read the "news" (sic.).