أشاطرك الأسى على الحال المتعفّنة التي بلغتها صحفنا، وعلى الخبث والابتذال وروح الكذب لدى من يكتبون فيها. ... وقد نشأ هذا إلى حدٍّ كبير عن عنف الحزبية وخبثها.

“I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them. ... This has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.”Thomas Jefferson — Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States (1829)