Quote#Books & Reading
No journalist is omnipotent, and even the most powerful journalist…
Quote byWilliam Thomas Stead · 1849–1912
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Government by Journalism (1886), p. 662.
English (original)
No journalist is omnipotent, and even the most powerful journalist cannot influence those who do not read his paper. But within the range of his circulation — and readers, of course, are much more numerous than subscribers — he may be more potent than any other man. The damnable iteration day after day of earnest conviction wears like the dropping of water upon the stone.
— William Thomas Stead
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