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Quotes from Journalism as a Profession — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

1865–1922 Ireland

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It is part of the business of a newspaper to get news and to print it; it is part of the business of a politician to prevent certain news being printed. For this reason the politician often takes a newspaper into his confidence for the mere purpose of preventing the publication of the news he deems objectionable to his interests.

Journalism as a Profession (1903)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.