Mencken on the Press

H.L Mencken

Leave it to Mencken to take the piss out of others in his chosen profession. If he harboured no love for the media of his day imagine how he would feel today!  

“What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.”

I Fucking Love H.L Mencken