Newspapers Quotes

The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition you add some shock headlines - mother kills four children, savings at risk of going up in smoke, letter from Garibaldi insulting his lieutenant Nino Bixio discovered, etc. - so news drowns in a great sea of information.

AH I know is what I see in the papers.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.

Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work by its very todayness is excluded from any share in tomorrow.

He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.

An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

News is the first rough draft of history.

Benjamin Bradlee

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Wilbur F. Storey

What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail grow indispensable.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Jean de La Fontaine

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Napoleon

Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

Wendell Phillips

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy.

Harry A. Overstreet

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Finley Peter Dunne

Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

James Gordon Bennett

Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.

William Randolph Hearst

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

Clifton Fadiman

AH I know is what I see in the papers.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.

Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work by its very todayness is excluded from any share in tomorrow.

He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.

An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

News is the first rough draft of history.

Benjamin Bradlee

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Wilbur F. Storey

What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail grow indispensable.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Jean de La Fontaine

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Napoleon

Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

Wendell Phillips

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy.

Harry A. Overstreet

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Finley Peter Dunne

Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

James Gordon Bennett

Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.

William Randolph Hearst

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