Upton Sinclair Is One Of My Favorite Authors

This is what Upton Sinclair said about 'Radicals and the Press' in his book "The Brass Check."

But it is for the poor devil become class-conscious, and protesting against injustice to his class, that our Journalism reserves its deadliest venom. It is when the Radical steps upon the scene that the hunting-pack joins in full cry. Then every prejudice, every hatred in the whole journalistic psychology becomes focused as by a burning-glass upon one centre. The hatred of the staff, men who have sold their honor, and take bold truth-telling for a personal insult; the hatred of the owner, whose life-time gains are threatened; the hatred of the advertiser who who betrays the state to it - all these various various hatreds mass themselves, they form what the foot-ball player knows as a "V," they "rush" this enemy and bowl him over and traple him under their feet.