Quotes about Newspapers

“I keep reading between the lies.”

“Headlines twice the size of the events.”

“A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.”

“All I know is just what I read in the papers.”

“A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.”

“The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.”

“It is the newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.”

“The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.”

“A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.”

“Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.”

“In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.”

“Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.”

“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”

“I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.”

“Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.”

“No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.”

“Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.”

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.”

“Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.”

“Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper. Democrats put them in the bottom of the bird cage.”

“They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.”

“I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.”

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.”