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James Gordon Bennett

James Gordon Bennett was the forefather of the people who are now inventing internet news.

Our journalism is both tyrannical and slavish; it succumbs to every powerful influence, and it is bold and independent only when it attacks the weak and defenseless.… Defamation is as much a habit of the newspaper press as barking is of dogs, or hissing of serpents.… the Americ

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