The repository contains 34 quotes in the category “Media and News.”
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826

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

President Lyndon B. Johnson
1908 — 1973

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

On pre-Columbian explorers of America:

The researches of many commentators have already thrown much darkness on this subject, and it is probable that if they continue we shall soon know nothing at all about it.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

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

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything except what is worth knowing. Journalists, conscious of this and having tradesman-like habits, supply their demands.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —     

About the press: Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

Tommy Lasorda
1927 —     

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Sir Alfred Hitchcock
1899 — 1980

Three hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769 — 1821

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956

The press is not public opinion.

Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
1815 — 1898

I’ve learned that there are three things that every man at CBS News thinks he can do better than any other man: one is to judge a Miss America contest, two is coach the Knicks, and three is to do big interviews.

Dan Rather
1931 —     

There are only three responses to questions from the press: “I know and will tell you”; “I know and I can’t tell you”; and “I don’t know.”

Dan Rather
1931 —     

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A. J. Liebling
1904 — 1963

People everywhere confuse what they read in the newspapers with news.

A. J. Liebling
1904 — 1963

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

Dennis Miller
1953 —     

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

Walter Bagehot
1826 — 1877

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