"When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy what they call the "good-will"- that is, they buy you. And they proceed to change your whole psychology - everything that you believe about life. You might object to it, if you knew; but they do their work so subtly that you never guess what is happening to you!"

Source : Upton Sinclair (1928). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.246, University of Illinois Press

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