The kitchen's a funny place to keep a Diebold.
Griff, don't fret too much. Look at the history of the American press through practically all the nineteenth century, in particular the American press on the politics of the day. Vitriol upon aspersion upon flying mud and the occasional grenado, fuze a-sparking. We got out of that habit very early in the twentieth, but a rancorous establishment press began developing again in the latter twentieth.
It's a pendulum.