“ Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“ Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience. Neil Postman
“ They put it like that?' said Glenda, wide-eyed.'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,' said Ponder. 'I seriously think they think that it is their job to calm people down by fir… Terry Pratchett
“ The media, like anything else, can be bought. Everything, it seems, has its price. Even the free press. Lance Morcan
“ One of the cardinal rules of journalism: Once you have cabled a story you must stick by it and back it up, unless something completely overwhelming proves you to have been wrong. In such a case, just… Wynant Davis Hubbard
“ The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little h… Hunter S. Thompson
“ The press can’t do shit about corruption in Africa without the masses. Everybody knows the offices that ask for bribes and everybody continues to pay. So reporting an incident of corruption in the med… Dauglas Dauglas
“ That’s what you people do, isn’t it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots. Michael Monroe
