The Press is representative of a degeneracy by which human beings will at last be made into complete idiots.
The Press is a formidable adversary, for it is never wise to pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
The Press is a watchdog, not an attack dog, and not a lapdog. A watchdog, and as such, like a watchdog, it cannot be right all the time. Like a watchdog, it doesn't bark only when it sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.
The Press is and will remain the evil principle in the modern world, because it can sink ever lower in its choice of readers, and in consequence, it dredges up so much muck that no state is capable, any longer, of restraining it.
The Press is like a woman: Sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
The Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in london, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalist who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.