I am obliged to mention this personal fact lest I should be accused of a prejudice against newspapers when I say that I object to the reading of newspapers in the morning train. Newspapers are produced with rapidity, to be read with rapidity. There is no place in my daily programme for newspapers. I read […]
Newspaper Quotes
The man on the news is going over the top, Now he’ll say anything so his show don’t flop, Wall Street’s down, so what, And according to the market analysts The world’s gonna stop. They shout the story to the nation. Pass on the panic to the population. This is end of civilization, It’s all […]
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. (on American newspapers)
Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.
Lickspittle, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper… the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.
I read nothing but the criminal news and the agony column. The latter is always instructive.
Pillory, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction – prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
The newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’ banks, commands th’ milishy, conthrols th’ ligislachure, baptizes th’ young, marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable, buries th’ dead an’ roasts thim aftherward.
