As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (ed. Ballantine Books, 2012) - ISBN: 9780307826626