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"A newspaper (The news media) is a device for making the ignorant more
ignorant and the crazy crazier".

~ H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956) Journalist – magazine editor

[rurgan]

Mencken was right. He's got a lot of great quotes.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

I would add:

The whole aim of the liberal mainstream media is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

I also like this one lol:

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken

he's got a million of them:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/h_l_mencken_5.html