The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information…

P. J. O'Rourke
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around. ✨ P.J. O'Rourke (2009). Peace Kills, p.60, Atlantic Books Ltd
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