"A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.“


-A. J. Liebling

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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

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