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#1101 The Effect of News

from 2014 by Listening to America with Clay Jenkinson

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Is the news bad for you? Based on a listener question and an article which appeared in the Manchester Guardian, President Thomas Jefferson speaks about news coverage during his time and ours. On January 16, 1787 Jefferson wrote to Edward Carrington, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." He also wrote, "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

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from 2014, track released November 2, 2014

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Listening to America with Clay Jenkinson

The Thomas Jefferson Hour is a weekly radio program dedicated to the search for truth in the tradition of Thomas Jefferson.

Nationally acclaimed humanities scholar and award-winning first-person interpreter of Thomas Jefferson, Clay S. Jenkinson, portrays Jefferson on the program, and he answers listener questions while in the persona of our third president.
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