George Seldes Quote

The failure of a free press in most countries is usually blamed on the readers. Every nation gets the government—and the press—it deserves. This is too facile a remark. The people deserve better in most governments and press. Readers, in millions of cases, have no way of finding out whether their newspapers are fair or not, honest or distorted, truthful or colored....

Lords of the Press (1938)

The failure of a free press in most countries is usually blamed on the readers. Every nation gets the government—and the press—it deserves. This...

The failure of a free press in most countries is usually blamed on the readers. Every nation gets the government—and the press—it deserves. This...

The failure of a free press in most countries is usually blamed on the readers. Every nation gets the government—and the press—it deserves. This...

The failure of a free press in most countries is usually blamed on the readers. Every nation gets the government—and the press—it deserves. This...