Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. – George Bernard Shaw
You can crush a man with journalism. – William Randolph Hearst
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. – Elbert Hubbard
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. – Mark Twain
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. – Napoleon
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. – Jean de la Fontaine
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. – C.E.M. Joad
Journalism is organized gossip. – Edward Egglestone
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. – Art Buchwald, 1969
Upon comparing BBC News with CNN: Melodrama is something foreigners do. – Jslayeruk, “Random points,” post after July 2005 London subway bombings
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. – Eric Sevareid, The Press and the People, 1959
Journalism — a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. – Lord Northcliffe
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination. – Akbar S. Ahmed
All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. – Bobby Knight, on reporters
The one function 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
That ephemeral sheet,… the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman. – Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, July 1858
You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting. – Rose Maccaulay
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. – Erwin Knoll
