| Author |
Quotes |
| Abbie Hoffman | The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list. |
| Aneurin Bevan | I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. |
| Ben Hecht | 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. |
| Carl Rowan | There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers. |
| Charles Dickens | When found, make a note of. |
| Daniel Moynihan | If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people. |
| David Garrick | Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers. |
| Earl Bush | You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said. |
| Eric Sevareid | The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness. |
| Frank Zappa | Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. |
| Geoffrey C Ward | Journalism is merely history's first draft. |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton | Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. |
| Hedda Hopper | Nobody's interested in sweetness and light. |
| Isaac D Israeli | Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. |
| James Gordon Bennett | Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification. |
| Junius | The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. |
| Karl Schonhausen Bismarck | which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career |
| Karl Schonhausen Bismarck | Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians |
| Marguerite Duras | Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. |
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