Monday, November 4, 2013

As we stand on the verge of state-licensed newspapers, a dreadful prophecy is being fulfilled

Decay appears to have seized on the organ of popular government in every land; and this just at the moment when we begin to bring to it, as to an oracle of justice, the whole skein of our private affairs to be unravelled, and ask it, like a new Messiah, to take upon itself the part that should be played by our own virtues. 

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/allanmassie/100071381/as-we-stand-on-the-verge-of-state-licensed-newspapers-a-dreadful-prophecy-is-being-fulfilled/

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