The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination. – Akbar S. Ahmed

The newspaper is the second-hand in the clock of history; and it is not only made of baser metal than those which point to the minute and the hour, but it seldom goes right. – Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), “On Some Forms of Literature,” The Art of

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. – Napoleon