The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government.
Newspaper Quotes
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
The guiding ideological principles of most American newsrooms are entropy, chaos, procrastination and lunch.
Perhaps an editor might… divide his paper into four chapters, heading the first, Truth; 2d, Probabilities; 3d, Possibilities; 4, Lies.
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 […]
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.
