Browsing Topic Best Newspapers Journalism Quotes

I love the news business. It’s in my bones. But I mourn for it. It’s destroyed itself.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

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.

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.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Journalism – a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

If you don’t hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

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.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

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

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

You can crush a man with journalism.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.