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Negative News Media

Found in Walden, via The Te of Piglet, via Allison.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter- we never need read of another. One is enough.

[...] message was re-confirmed last year, in a quote that continues to ring true. I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or [...]