Never argue with people who buy ink by the barrel

Boston is a tough town. It was a Boston newspaper, names escapes me, during the Civil War that became the object of a vendetta by a Union general, who banned the paper's reporter from his division. So the paper simply responded by running only negative stories about the general and generally ruining his reputation. He is said later to have remorsed, "Never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton."

And so the Boston Herald continues the tradition.

Here is the background.