It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.
Probably no country was ever ruled by so mean a class of tyrants as, with a few noble exceptions, are the editors of the periodical press in this country. And as they live and rule only by their servi...
Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news—the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of...
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
He who only reads newspapers makes his mind a junkyard.
A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.
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.
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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...
He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
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.
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