Newspapers quotes

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◆ If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

- Mark Twain100

◆ Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge

- Erwin Knoll99

◆ All I know is what I read in the papers

- Will Rogers99

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

- Jerry Seinfeld99

◆ I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

- Charles Baudelaire99

◆ Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the New York Herald Tribune, history itself is denied a devoted witness.

- Richard Kluger99

◆ Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress

- Wendell Phillips99

◆ The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

- Anne Sullivan99

◆ Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .

- Potter Stewart99

◆ One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that newspapermen are breezy and raffish. What other play has for so long fed the self-image of journalists?

- Jay Carr99

◆ A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something.

- Jimmy Breslin99

◆ Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.

- Loren Ghiglione99

◆ The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

- Herbert Bayard Swope99

◆ The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

- George Harrison99