[hadaclueonce]

Jefferson did not have to deal with the MSM.

[DeaconBenjamin2]

"I deplore... the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them... These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our funtionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief... This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit."
--Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 1814. ME 14:46