What Alexis de Tocqueville thinks about journalism

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French political philosopher and historian (1805 to 1859); author of Democracy in America.

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1. c. 1835

   Our readingPress freedom earns approval more for the evils it prevents than the good it ensures

   Their wordsI confess that I do not entertain that firm and complete attachment to the liberty of the press which things that are supremely good in their very nature are wont to excite in the mind; and I approve of it more from a recollection of the evils it prevents than from a consideration of the advantages it ensures.

   ↗Democracy in America, Volume 1 (1835; Henry Reeve translation)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book