Note to Journalists

"I always deprecate the style of journalism,  more popular in older days than now[ed.-1929], of dragging into the chronicle of events the narrowness,  the bitterness,  sometimes the want of candour which are incident to partisan warfare.   A journalist becomes,  in my opinion,  not merely untrustworthy,  but dull and uninteresting,  who makes all swans of his geese, and all geese of the swans of other people. "  

Memoirs of an Old Parliamentarian Vol. 1, (p.285)