To read the front pages, you might conclude that Americans are mostly out for themselves, venal, grasping, and mean-spirited. The front pages have room only for defense contractors who cheat and politicians with their hands in the till. But you can’t travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing […]
Newspaper Quotes
You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being.
The press is a midden heap, full of bits and pieces of things, some of them true, and maybe valuable, but all of them fragments from which the citizen must construct his own distorted portrait of reality. I object to the idea that somehow the press, the media, are going to provide the people with […]
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.
I like a good newspaper. It’s nice to read The Economist on a plane, while scumbags help themselves to your unlocked suitcase. But print pubs are relics, aren’t they? Relics of last week and relics of a time when the only way to widely distribute media was to chop down a tree, pulp it, buy […]
