"Don't we already have news-sheets for every point of the day! A clever man might well be able to slip in one or two more. In this way anything that anyone does, is working at or writing, indeed plans to write, is dragged out into the open. Noone is allowed to be happy or miserable except as a pastime for the rest of the world, and so news rushes from house to house, from town to town, from one country to another, and, in the end, from one continent to the next, and all on the principle of speed and velocity."
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe