“...Just as the most poisonous form of disorder is the mob incited from high places, the most immoral act the immorality of a government, so the most destructive form of untruth is sophistry and propaganda by those whose profession it is to report the news.”
Walter Lippmann, Liberty and the News, 1920
quite apt in our present era.
“the most poisonous form of disorder is the mob incited from high places”
Made me think of DeBlasio for some reason,