The following quote seems profoundly relevant especially to politics and media, and has likewise noticeable influence on the financial markets or even in social networking media such as Facebook.
If fifty* million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
That’s from Anatole France, French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1921), as quoted in Listening and Speaking : A Guide to Effective Oral Communication (1954) by Ralph G. Nichols and Thomas R. Lewis, p. 74 (Wikiquote.org)
*the common attribution has been “If a million people”…
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