“ If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds d… Andrew Carnegie
“ The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others. Margaret Atwood
“ Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to. Hannen Swaffer
“ 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… Cyril Connolly
“ The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business. Frank Miller
“ Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. Erwin Knoll
“ She wasn’t going to succeed in newspapers if she didn’t ask the big questions when she could. Larry McMurtry
“ The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you. John Gunther
“ To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity. Alain de Botton
“ 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… Cyril Connolly
“ One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance. Clifton Fadiman
“ 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. Elbert Hubbard
“ Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all. Thomas Carlyle
“ 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
