The more things change
As I've mentioned before, I have a Civil War desk calendar with interesting quotes and anecdotes for each day of the year. This was the entry over the weekend:
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast. - William Tecumseh ShermanIt's both comforting and unsettling to know that not much has changed in the MSM in the last 140 years.
