Adding de Tocqueville, from 1831: > The characteristics of the American journalist consist in an open and coarse appeal to the passions of the populace; and he

Adding de Tocqueville, from 1831: > The characteristics of the American journalist consist in an open and coarse appeal to the passions of the populace; and he habitually abandons the principles of political science to assail the characters of individuals, to track them into private life, and disclose all their weaknesses and errors.