American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism