Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.
ATTRIBUTION:
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), U.S. author. Harlan Potter, in The Long Goodbye, ch. 32 (1954).
