| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11255 |
| QUOTATION: | Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), U.S. author. Harlan Potter, in The Long Goodbye, ch. 32 (1954). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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