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2. “The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship ...

Reply to KoKo (Original post)

Tue Oct 28, 2014, 07:33 PM

Oct 2014

“The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of a press, but the unofficial censorship by a press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.”

Dorothy L. Sayers
1893-1957

British writer, essayist, playwright and translator.

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