Quote#Speech
The Press is at once the eye and the ear and the tongue of the…
Quote byWilliam Thomas Stead · 1849–1912
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Government by Journalism (1886), p. 656.
English (original)
The Press is at once the eye and the ear and the tongue of the people. It is the visible speech if not the voice of the democracy. It is the phonograph of the world.
— William Thomas Stead
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