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
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
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, How dull is the world today! Nowadays he says, What a dull newspaper! – Daniel J. Boorstin
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.
