Quotes on media
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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Wendell Phillips Quotes
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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Christopher Morley Quotes
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
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Eric Sevareid Quotes
Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.
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P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
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Lord Northcliffe Quotes
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
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James G. Watt Quotes
Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.
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The Houghton Line Quotes
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
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Charles Baudelaire Quotes
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayadère of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising - only these stand a chance.
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Henry James Quotes
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
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Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.
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Rose Macaulay Quotes
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.
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Matthew Arnold Quotes
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Henry Fielding Quotes
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.
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Akbar S. Ahmed Quotes
All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.
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Ira Berkow Quotes
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
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Warren Chappell Quotes
Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.
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Horizon Quotes
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.
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C.E.M. Joad Quotes
All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things.
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Bobby Knight Quotes
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
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Erwin Knoll Quotes
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.
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Lemony Snicket Quotes
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
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Cyril Connolly Quotes
I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.
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Tommy Docherty Quotes
You can crush a man with journalism.
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William Randolph Hearst Quotes
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
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Hedrick Smith Quotes
Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to.
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Helen Swaffer Quotes
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
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Norman Mailer Quotes
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
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Paul Eldridge Quotes
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
This whole "recession" thing everyone's blathering about was merely fabricated by the media...
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Perry Marshall Quotes
Did you know that ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN have predicted 40 out of the last 2 recessions?
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Perry Marshall Quotes
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Arthur Miller Quotes
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.
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Mark Twain Quotes
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
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