That is a conclusion I came to more than 10 years ago and nothing has changed which would cause me to reevaluate.
GENERAL TECUMSEH SHERMAN ON NY TIMES/REPORTERS:
‘’I will illustrate why I regard newspaper correspondents as spies,’’ Sherman wrote on Feb. 17, 1863. ‘’A spy is one who furnishes an enemy with knowledge useful to him and dangerous to us. I say in giving intelligence to the enemy, in sowing discord & discontent in an army, these men fulfill all the conditions of spies. I am satisfied they have cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars & brought our country to the brink of ruin & that unless the nuisance is abated we are lost.’’
‘’While they cry about blood & slaughter they are the direct cause of more bloodshed than fifty times their number of armed Rebels,’’ he wrote.