No American newspaper will print anything contrary to its own interests.
Newspaper Quotes
There are two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe – the sun in the heavens and the associated press down here.
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press’s speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
No, I never got a scoop in my life. They were the things that were esteemed in those days. They never seemed to me to have any sense: most scoops were bad stories, and they were always exaggerated and played up in an idiot manner.
What is the epitome of a newspaper? In the first place, all the deadly sins, and infinite varieties of violence and fraud… lawyers barking at each other;… bear-garden meetings of mismanaged companies, in which directors and shareholders abuse each other in choice terms, not all to be found even in Rabelais… burstings of bank bubbles, […]
A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and veracity
So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it, but I couldn’t find honest employment. (often erroneously attributed to Mark Twain)
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
