Influence Over Newspapers Quiz

The author believes that public opinion is powerful and should not be ignored.

Despising public opinion is considered dangerous because it is as dangerous as despising moral principles, and it requires peculiar cultivation and sustained perseverance.

The author highlights the difficulty in distinguishing true news from false news, and emphasizes the danger of false news being perceived as true if left unchallenged.

<p>The author compares the influence of newspapers to an army, suggesting that newspapers are as influential as an army of three hundred thousand men in overlooking the interior and frightening foreign powers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author implies that the Government's efforts to influence the public have been successful, especially in the place where the author is located.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author views the use of a thing as confounded everywhere with its abuse.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author compares public opinion to religion because both penetrate the most hidden recesses, where administrative measures have no influence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Despising public opinion is considered dangerous because it is as dangerous as despising moral principles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author implies that false news can be perceived as true if it is not contradicted, and the public cannot distinguish if news is true or false.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author characterizes the Government's efforts to influence the public as successful, particularly in the context of newspaper publications.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author believes there is a most urgent necessity to exercise some influence over newspapers, especially those spreading lies about them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author criticizes the governments for regarding it as useless, beneath their dignity, and even dangerous to speak truth to the public, especially when the French are concerned.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The French have occupied an empty place by seizing the desks of the journalists and are effectively using the weapon of communication against other governments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author identifies the fault of regarding it as useless, beneath their dignity, and even dangerous to speak truth to the public, especially when the French are concerned.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author believes it is necessary to communicate correct news to counter the spread of lies, especially those extracted by French journals from newspapers like the Frankfurt and Augsburg Gazettes.</p> Signup and view all the answers