Here is James Fenimore Cooper talking about the American press in The American Democrat (1838): >As the press of this country now exists, it would seem to be e

Here is James Fenimore Cooper talking about the American press in The American Democrat (1838): >As the press of this country now exists, it would seem to be expressly devised by the great agent of mischief, to depress and destroy all that is good, and to elevate and advance all that is evil in the nation. The little truth that is urged, is usually urged coarsely, weakened and rendered vicious, by personalities; while those who live by falsehoods, fallacies, enmities, partialities and the schemes of the designing, find the press the very instrument that the devils would invent to effect their designs.