“ To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele. ”
- Gandhi- Copy
- 797
“ 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. ”
- Ben Hecht- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 1.8K
“ USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. ”
- David Letterman- Copy
- 1.4K
“ 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. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
- 3.4K
“ All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 530
“ A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
- 284
“ It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. ”
- Jerry Seinfeld- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. ”
- Jimmy Breslin- Copy
- 3.9K
“ You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. ”
- Joseph Campbell- Copy
- 667
“ Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
- 3.7K
“ But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. ”
- Russel Lynes- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits. ”
- Stephen Leacock- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 2K
“ The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord James is dead" to people who never knew Lord James was alive. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
- 3K
“ Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.2K
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