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.....The press of this country is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that it cannot be depended upon to give the great mass of the people that correct information concerning political, economical, and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of the people shall have, in order that they shall vote and in all ways act in the best way to protect themselves from the brutal force and the chicanery of the ruling and employing class.
..........— E.W. [Edward Wyllis] Scripps (1854 - 1926), American newspaper publisher and founder of The E. W. Scripps Company. Damned Old Crank: Self-Portrait of E.W. Scripps (published posthumously in 1951), page 145.
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