Claim: Quotes Mark Twain as saying of journalists that it is "far better" to "fear the media for they will steal your honor" and describes them as "a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons…"
Fact-check: Did Mark Twain say people should 'fear the media'?
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Samantha Putterman
Date published: 2019-05-24T00:00:00