Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Media and News.

The repository contains 34 quotes in the category “Media and News.”
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Three hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769 — 1821

Journalism consists largely in saying “Lord Jones died” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

G. K. Chesterton
1874 — 1936

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

G. K. Chesterton
1874 — 1936

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

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

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

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

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Jerry Seinfeld
1954 —     

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

H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956

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

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

A. J. Liebling
1904 — 1963

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Edward R. Murrow
1908 — 1965

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

Tommy Lasorda
1927 —     

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

President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826

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