News is history shot on the wing. – Gene Fowler, Skyline

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

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

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