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| Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ~ G.K. Chesterton |
| We can’t quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder. ~ The Houghton Line |
| News is history shot on the wing. ~ Gene Fowler, |
| It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism. ~ Charles Osgood |
| Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them. ~ Horizon |
| I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures. ~ Earl Warren, quoted in |
| If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can’t Swim." ~ Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. ~ Ben Hecht |
| The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. ~ Warren Chappell |
| They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. ~ James G. Watt, quoted in |
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| Journalists aren’t supposed to praise things. It’s a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something. ~ P.J. O’Rourke |
| The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ~ Thomas Jefferson |
| In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. ~ Paul Eldridge |
| If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event… what kind of film would you use? ~ Author Unknown |
| There ain’t any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare. ~ Finley Peter Dunne |
| Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. ~ Rebecca West |
| I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. ~ Charles Baudelaire |
| A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. ~ Henry Fielding |
| Journalism is literature in a hurry. ~ Matthew Arnold |
| Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. ~ Thomas Carlyle, |
| No news is good news. No journalists is even better. ~ Nicolas Bentley |
| Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. ~ Thomas Jefferson |
| The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. ~ David Brinkley |
| Harmony seldom makes a headline. ~ Silas Bent |
| A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. ~ Arthur Miller |
| We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. ~ Wendell Phillips |
| The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow. ~ Christopher Morley, |
| Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ~ Norman Mailer |
| Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism. ~ Hedrick Smith |
| Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. ~ George Bernard Shaw |