Media Quotes
+2Go beyond thinking of freedom of the media; appreciate your privacy when the media has not invaded it.
+1Harmony seldom makes a headline.
- Silas Bent
+1Journalism is literature in a hurry.
- Matthew Arnold
+1News is history shot on the wing.
- Gene Fowler
+1Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
- Ludwig Börne
+1You can crush a man with journalism.
- William Randolph
+1No news is good news. No journalists is even better.
- Nicolas Bentley
+1Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
- Jean Fontaine
+1We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
- Wendell Phillips
+1Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
- Anna Quindlen
+1Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
- Edmund Burke
+1A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
- Arthur Miller
+1I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
- Napoleon
+1Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
- Rebecca West
+1People everywhere confuse What they read in newspapers with news.
- A.J. Liebling
+1I’ve always said there’s a place for the press but they haven’t dug it yet.
- Tommy Docherty
+1Get your facts first, and then you can distort ‘em as much as you please.
- Mark Twain
+1If it’s called the USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday? BAM. Busted!
- Stephen Colbert
+1There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
- Walter Wellesley
+1All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things.
- Bobby Knight
+1I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Gandhi
+1Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
- Norman Mailer
+1Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
- Elias Root Beadle
+1Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
- Ezra Pound
+1Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
- Hedrick Smith
+1The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
- Warren Chappell
+1You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.
- Rose Maccaulay
+1We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
- Edmund Burke
+1A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
- Henry Fielding
+1The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.
- Akbar S. Ahmed
+1The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
- Nadine Gordimer
+1Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
- Hugo L. Black
+1You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
- Paul Sweeney
+1A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
- Ernest Bevin
+1The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
- Christopher Morley
+1I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
- Charles Baudelaire
+1Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross dressed as science.
- Linda Bowles
