Mencken on newspapers

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu May 18 09:40:16 PDT 2000


[the daily quotation from today's Progressive Review]

"The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station lawyer." -- HL Mencken



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