* * * * *

 I don't think we have to worry about the Vice President killing anyone this
                                 time around

> To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be
> conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to
> true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few
> subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press
> could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done
> by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed
> which is seen in a newspaper.
>

Via Hacker News [1], “Amendment I (Speech and Press): Thomas Jefferson to
John Norvell [2]”

1807!

We've been worried about “fake news” since 1807!

And yet, somehow, we've survived.

As I've said, history doesn't repeat as much as rhyme [3] …

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13677742
[2] http://press-/
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2017/02/05.1

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