Quotes
Quotes about Newspapers
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villanous, licentious, abominable, infernal-- Not that I ever read them! No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the cultureâin literature, art, theater, or the daily 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.
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.
Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.
In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but 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.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.
