jan olieslagers wrote:
We should not
forget the media are commercial entities, accuracy might be a factor
them but it certainly doesn't precede. Sales are what counts.

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the
newspaper, you're mis-informed." -- Mark Twain

"I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion
of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when
they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe
is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the
thunders of prophecy." -- Mark Twain

More of Twain's quotes on newspapers:

http://www.twainquotes.com/Newspaper.html