Quotes on Newspapers Journalism

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

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

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

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

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

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

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

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

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 it were.