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Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
 A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the 
Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.  
 A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the 
Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. 
 How shall I speak thee, or thy power address
 Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.
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 How shall I speak thee, or thy power address
 Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.
  . . . .
   Like Eden's dead probationary tree,
    Knowledge of good and evil is from thee. 
 The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, 
political, and religious rights of an Englishman.  
 The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, 
political, and religious rights of an Englishman. 
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers read more
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it
 Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors
 Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers.  
 Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors
 Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers. 
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
 Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost,
 Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?
  Torn, trampled read more 
 Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost,
 Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?
  Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,
   Star-eyed intelligence?