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Those were the days
“The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has
the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness
of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the
taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station
lawyer.”
—H.L.
Mencken (1890-1956), newspaperman, 1919
• Editorial Comment: That's a libel on boob-jumpers.
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