I always liked the Mark Twain saying, “If you don’t read the paper you are uninformed. If you read the paper, you are mis-informed.
“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I had my choice, I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.”
—General William T. Sherman