A de Tocqueville Quote...

The famous observer of American life, de Tocqueville wrote this in 1835 about the press...

The journalists of the United States are generally in a very humble position, with a scanty education and a vulgar turn of mind...the characteristics of the American journalist consist in an open and coarse appeal to the passions of the readers; he abandons principles to assail the characters of individuals, to track them in private life and disclose all their weaknesses and vices. Nothing could be more deplorable...

It seems the more things change the more they stay the same.