News is history shot on the wing.
Gene Fowler

Harmony seldom makes a headline.
Silas Bent

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold

Journalism is organized gossip.
Edward Egglestone

You can crush a man with journalism.
William Randolph Hearst

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
James G. Watt-1982

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
Jean de la Fontaine

Media: 99,99% of what happens is not on the news
Loesje

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.
Nicolas Bentley

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
Anna Quindlen

Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.
Horizon

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
Rebecca West

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism
Graham Greene

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
Napoleon

Get your facts first, and then you can distort ‘em as much as you please.
Mark Twain

I’ve always said there’s a place for the press but they haven’t dug it yet.
Tommy Docherty-1980

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Gandhi

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today’s newspaper
Charles Peguy

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values
Marshall McLuhan

All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things.
Bobby Knight

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
Charles Anderson Dana

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
Warren Chappell

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson

The media’s power is frail. Without the people’s support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
Corazon Aquino

Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
G.K. Chesterton

For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship’s captain complaining about the sea
Enoch Powell

We can’t quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.
[Houghton Line]-1965

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.
Charles Osgood

I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures.
Earl Warren-1968

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: “President Can’t Swim.”
Lyndon B. Johnson

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Ben Hecht

Journalists aren’t supposed to praise things. It’s a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.
P.J. O’Rourke

If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event… what kind of film would you use?
Author Unknown

There ain’t any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
Finley Peter Dunne

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Charles Baudelaire

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
Thomas Carlyle

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
David Brinkley

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
Christopher Morley

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Norman Mailer

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
Hedrick Smith

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
George Bernard Shaw-1931

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.
Kingman Brewster-Jr

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.
William Bernbach

Editor*- A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.
Mark Twain

The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Malcolm X*

If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
Malcolm X*

All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow’s mackerel.
Ira Berkow

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.
C*E*M* Joad

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor’s prejudices as the advertiser’s won’t object to.
Helen Swaffer

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly

Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.
Art Buchwald-1969*

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
Thomas Griffith

If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
Author unknown

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Eric Sevareid “Television Program”-1959*

Journalism – a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Lord Northcliffe

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.
Akbar S. Ahmed

That ephemeral sheet,… the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
E. and J. de Goncourt-1858*

You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.
Rose Maccaulay

People shouldn’t expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the fringe media.
Ted Koppel

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
Erwin Knoll

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
Robert Bresson