Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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