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If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

Source: In These Great Times, speech, 19 Nov. 1914, Vienna (published in: Die Fackel, Vienna, Dec. 1914; repr. in In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader, ed. by Harry Zohn, 1976).
-- Karl Kraus, (Apr 28 1874-1936), Austrian journalist, critic, playwright, poet; He has been compared to Juvenal and Jonathan Swift for his satiric vision and command of language.

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