Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. – George Bernard Shaw

I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. On Medias Participation In Watergate – Patrick J. Buchanan

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

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