There is No New Thing Under the Sun. Mark Twain talked about Journalism in Tennessee in 1871: "The editor of the Memphis Avalanche swoops thus mildly down upon a correspondent who posted him as a Radical:--'While he was writing the first word, the middle, dotting his i's, crossing his t's, and punching his period, he knew he was concocting a sentence that was saturated with infamy and reeking with falsehood.'--Exchange."
It gets better from there: http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1562/
On The Internet: It's Pretty Much As Mean As All Of Us
There is No New Thing Under the Sun. Mark Twain talked about Journalism in Tennessee in 1871: "The editor of the Memphis Avalanche swoops thus mildly down upon a correspondent who posted him as a Radical:--'While he was writing the first word, the middle, dotting his i's, crossing his t's, and punching his period, he knew he was concocting a sentence that was saturated with infamy and reeking with falsehood.'--Exchange."
It gets better from there: http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1562/