The Function of the Press

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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A.J. Liebling

A. J. Liebling was “a chronicler of the prize ring,” a media critic of extraordinary wit, and biographer of diverse individuals for New Yorker magazine from 1935 until his death. A collection of many of his New Yorker boxing stories, published in 1956 as a book, The Sweet Science, is considered the most critically admired and widely read book on prize fighting ever written. Liebling was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1992.