[Dick Bachert]

“Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the press, for they will steal your HONOR.  That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. —Mark Twain

[Intolerant in NJ]

A statesman is an easy man,
he tells his lies by rote;
A journalist makes up his lies
and takes you by the throat;.....
Yeats - The Old Stone Cross