One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.

Newspaper accounts must not only be studied, but, occasionally refuted.

The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.

Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.