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

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. – Thomas Jefferson, letter to Nathaniel Macon

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. – Michel De Certeau

All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. – Bobby Knight, on reporters