...we have almost up
to the last instant trusted the newspapers as organs of public opinion. Just
recently some of us have seen (not slowly, but with a start) that they are
obviously nothing of the kind. They are, by the nature of the case, the hobbies
of a few rich men. We have not any need to rebel against antiquity; we have to
rebel against novelty...It will not be necessary for
any one to fight again against the proposal of a censorship of the press. We do
not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.
-Orthodoxy (1908)
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