Category: Media Quotes SMS

That ephemeral sheet,… the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.  ~E. and J. de Goncourt, Journal, July 1858LCD

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.  ~Wendell PhillipsMCTO

I’ve always said there’s a place for the press but they haven’t dug it yet.  ~Tommy Docherty, 1980CDC

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, Heroes and Hero-WorshipMCTO; The term, “fourth estate,” which refers to journalism, is attributed to the historian Carlyle, though Carlyle himself attributes it to Edmund Burke. In its original […]

All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things.  ~Bobby Knight, on reportersBS

Harmony seldom makes a headline.  ~Silas BentCUL

I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters.  But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast […]

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

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

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 HechtPCR

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.  ~Norman Mailer

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.  ~Rebecca West

Journalism is organized gossip.  ~Edward Egglestone

If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event… what kind of film would you use?  ~Author Unknown

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.  ~Charles Anderson Dana

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.  ~George Bernard Shaw, Too True to Be Good, preface, 1931

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.  ~Art Buchwald, 1969

If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.  ~Malcolm X

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

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.  ~Thomas JeffersonLLDT

I always turn to the sports section first.  The sports section records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures.  ~Earl Warren, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 22 July 1968BGQ

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.  ~Thomas Jefferson, letter to Nathaniel MaconMCTO

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.  ~James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982

We can’t quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.  ~The Houghton Line, November 1965

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

Get your facts first, and then you can distort ’em as much as you please.  ~Mark TwainMCTO

You don’t realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.  ~Charles OsgoodDefending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack qtd in rdqq

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time.  It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.  ~Mark Twain

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything.  Except what is worth knowing.  Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.  ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891LCD

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