The Press (n.) 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 (n.) is representative of a degeneracy by which human beings will at last be made into complete idiots.
The Press's (n.) inscription ought to be: Here men are demoralized in the shortest possible time, on the largest possible scale, at the cheapest possible price.
The Press (n.) demoralizes by not caring whether its report is true or false; the impersonal cannot be held responsible and cannot repent.
The Press (n.) lets an anonymous nobody say daily to thousands what he would never dare say as an individual — the absolutely unrepentant thing, an anonymity addressing another anonymity, the public: nobody, nobody!