The press is overstepping in every direction. Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and of the vicious, but has become a trade. Even gossip apparently harmless, when widely circulated, belittles by inverting the *relative importance* of things, dwarfing the thoughts and aspirations of a people.
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From 1890.
Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren, “The Right to Privacy,” Harvard Law Review.
