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In from Walden (pp 207-216), what is Thoreau's opinion of newspapers?

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Pointless because one know principle of thing, why look at different instances and get emotionally attached He believed that sensationalist newspaper articles -- the mid-19th century equivalent of local television news -- were a distraction. ''If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned we never need read of another,'' he writes.

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