To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.
Via Hacker News [1], “Amendment I (Speech and Press): Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell [2]”
1807!
We've been worried about “fake news” since 1807!
And yet, somehow, we've survived.
As I've said, history doesn't repeat as much as rhyme [3] …