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If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.
Said by
Harold J. Laski
Source
gutenberg.orgIf no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.
He argues that governments may fabricate news when real positive information is lacking.
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Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.