bookslover
Puritan Board Doctor
Our modern military leaders can take comfort from the fact that the press was despised by the military long before our time. Take the War of Southern Intransigence, for example:
The South
It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered, by reading newspapers, that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I'm readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I'll, in turn, do my best for the cause by writing editorials - after the fact. - Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
The North
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all, there would be news from Hell before breakfast. - William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
Tsk, tsk: reporters just can't catch a break!
The South
It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered, by reading newspapers, that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I'm readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I'll, in turn, do my best for the cause by writing editorials - after the fact. - Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
The North
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all, there would be news from Hell before breakfast. - William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
Tsk, tsk: reporters just can't catch a break!
, I do think Lee and Sherman - at least on this point - were both correct.
