----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 12:40 PM Subject: Mencken on newspapers
> [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