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

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

You can crush a man with journalism. – William Randolph Hearst

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