“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.” Another ill-considered tweet by our petulant president? Hardly. That it is a complete sentence, a coherent thought, and grammatically correct should have demonstrated it never came from President Donald Trump’s mind (if you need proof, here is his Feb. 17 tweet: “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!”) No, it was a lament by perhaps one of America’s greatest thinkers — Trump would never be confused with a thinker — President Thomas Jefferson in a June 11, 1807, letter to John Norvell, a teenager who would later become a co-founder of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Jefferson and the newspapers of his day were at war.