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If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
Sep 29, 2025
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
No news is good news. No journalists is even better.
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
You can crush a man with journalism.
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.
Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
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