Newspapers sayings

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◆ There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

- Daniel J Boorstin99

◆ I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

- Rupert Murdoch99

◆ There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den.

- Morris Hite99

◆ Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

- James Cramer99

◆ The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

- Herbert Bayard Swope99

◆ Every good newspaper is muckraking to some degree. It's part of our job. Where there's muck, we ought to rake it.

- James P Cannon99

◆ 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

◆ Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

- William Howard Taft99

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

- Henry Fielding99

◆ Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any old words in any old order

- Alan Brewer99

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

- Adlai E Stevenson99

◆ The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers

- Henry Louis Mencken99

◆ It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

- Agnetha Faltskog99

◆ They take the paper and they read the headlines, so they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread lines, and they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball

- Ogden Nash99

◆ Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

- George Bernard Shaw99