From the American newspapers, you’d think America was populated by naked women and cinema stars.
Newspaper Quotes
I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what’s moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. (Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2003)
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
The abuses of the press are notorious… License of the press is no proof of liberty. When a people are corrupted, the press may be made an engine to complete their ruin… Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence, than the body can live and move without a soul.
The true Church of England at this moment lies in the editors of its newspapers. These preach to the people, daily, weekly.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones Dead” to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
America’s next great newspaper is a wonderful idea – but it will have to be published on the web and not on paper, and as a new style web newspaper, not one of today’s conventional web-based losers. It is coming – and (in the nature of things) it will redefine the news story and the […]
What the proprietorship of these newspapers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot through the ages.
