Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check

[Carrol Cox]

I was delighted in opening the latest issue of MR today to see that it
featured a lead article on Upton Sinclair's greatest work, _The Brass
Check_. For many years, in answer to people who complained about the
"consolidation" of the press in the last decades I have urged them to
read this work. The Press is not a whit worse today than it was a
hundred years ago. Then as now it serves its owners -- the capitalist
class. Complaints about the current media which look back to the
supposedly brigher days of a more independent press 25 or 50 or 100
years ago are, implicitly, apologies for capitalism: their implication
is that the press would be just fine if independent capitalists instead
of corporations ran it.

Carrol