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The papers are not so good as the English, because they have not the same motive to be good as the English papers.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The papers are not so good as the English, because they have not the same motive to be good as the English papers.”
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Bagehot attributes the quality difference between American and English newspapers to differing motivations.
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