[It is] impossible for any editor of a commercial newspaper to understand the
difference between a profit system in a state of collapse, driving the
State and everybody in it to bankruptcy, and a system of production
for use in process of growth, providing security and plenty for all.
I used to say to our audiences: "It is difficult to get a man to
understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding
it!"
-- Upton Sinclair.
I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935)
University of California Press, 1994, p. 109.