When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy what they call the "good-will"- that is, they buy you. And they proceed to change your whole psychology - everything that you believe about life. You might object to it, if you knew; but they do their work so subtly that you never guess what is happening to you!

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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

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Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

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Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?

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Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.

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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.

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