Mencken on newspapers

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Thu May 18 09:51:22 PDT 2000


I thought that high school janitors are well informed. Ours were.


>
> [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
>

-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

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