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An Important Definition of News from the 1st Viscount Northcliffe

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A recent return visit to the Newseum (a must see and see again, IMO) I discovered this quote carved into a wall: “News is what somebody, somewhere, wants to suppress,” from Lord Northcliffe, a British newspaper publisher who died in 1922.

Based on that quotation, what was true in Lord Northcliffe’s day is even more so today, yet harder to accomplish given the amount of traditional and online sources of news and information.

Given the opportunity, how would he edit that quote today or would he say “stet”?

 

 

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