From Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism by Eric Burns comes a vision of journalism from William Corbbett, aka Peter Porcupine, publisher of Porcupine's Gazette:
My politics, such as they are, are known to every one; and few, I believe, doubt of their continuing the same.
Professions of impartiality I shall make none. They are always useless, and are besides perfect nonsense, when used by a newsmonger: for, he that does not relate news as he finds it, is something worse than partial; and as to other articles that help to compose a paper, he that does not exercise his own judgment, either in admitting or rejecting what is sent him, is a poor passive tool, and not an editor.
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