“ 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. “
This is the best quote, because they sensed to be true what we now know is true for pew research data. The more you watch and read the news, the more likely you are to be less informed about the state of things.
This is obviously the case when you recognize that the media focuses on the long tail of interesting topics. The average is never interesting enough to sell clicks/papers, so the entire focus is on outlier events (this is how Trump got focused on and eventually elected).
This is the best quote, because they sensed to be true what we now know is true for pew research data. The more you watch and read the news, the more likely you are to be less informed about the state of things.
This is obviously the case when you recognize that the media focuses on the long tail of interesting topics. The average is never interesting enough to sell clicks/papers, so the entire focus is on outlier events (this is how Trump got focused on and eventually elected).