The repository contains 34 quotes in the category “Media and News.”
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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 —
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
1904 — 1963
Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.
Dennis Miller
1953 —
I have not personally read this book, because, as a journalist, I am too busy writing about it.
Dave Barry
1947 —
I read the newspaper avidly. It’s my one form of continuous fiction.
M.P. Aneurin Bevan
1897 — 1960
”Media” is the plural of “mediocre.”
Jimmy Breslin
1930 —
Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Ernie Kovacs
1919 — 1962
To reporters during a postgame interview.:
Look, I know all your questions and you know all my answers. Aren’t we just wasting each other’s time? Just write down what you’d think I’d say and, at the end of the year, I’ll give you a bottle of vodka and we’ll be even.
Janne Laukkanen
1970 —
The medium is the message.
Marshall McLuhan
1911 — 1980
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
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 —
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
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
Journalism is merely history’s first draft.
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
Walter Bagehot
1826 — 1877
A good newspaper is, I suppose, a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
1915 — 2005
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 —
A gossip columnist is someone who uses dirt to make a mountain out of a molehill.
Nowadays, the perfect crime is getting caught and then selling your story to TV.
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