Quotes on media
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Phillips, Wendell
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Sevareid, Eric
Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
Shaw, George Bernard
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.
Carlyle, Thomas
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
Fontaine, Jean de La
You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.
Macaulay, Rose
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.
Hubbard, Elbert
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Arnold, Matthew
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.
Ahmed, Akbar S.
Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.
Horizon
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Connolly, Cyril
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
Smith, Hedrick
Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to.
Swaffer, Helen
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Eldridge, Paul
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Jefferson, Thomas
This whole "recession" thing everyone's blathering about was merely fabricated by the media...
Marshall, Perry
Did you know that ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN have predicted 40 out of the last 2 recessions?
Marshall, Perry
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
Unknown, Author