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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
Source: Karl Kraus, in Frankfurter Zeitung, no. 76 (Frankfurt), 1931.
-- Walter Benjamin, (Jul 15 1892-1940), German man of letters, aesthetician; He is now considered to have been the most important German literary critic in the first half of the 20th century.