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The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's f...

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An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the ch...

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Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, c...

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The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday p...

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You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd yo...

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One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Things were rather larger, more obvious and rougher on the American side, but the issues were essent...

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But the old traditions of sectarian misdirection still in spite of a certain advance in technical ef...

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Probably no country was ever ruled by so mean a class of tyrants as, with a few noble exceptions, ar...

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Henry David ThoreauSlavery in Massachusetts

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Newspapers abound, and though they have endured decades of decline in readership and influence, they...

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Jon StewartAmerica (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or ...

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Nudity and explicit sex are far more easily available now than are clear images of death. The quasi-...

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The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of t...

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I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing...

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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the pa...

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It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands,...

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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ...

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I like to think of this little [newspaper] column as a brassière, or do I mean brasserie? Brazier, p...

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I brought the newspaper close up to my eyes to get a better view of George Pollucci's face, spotligh...

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Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a...

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I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for ...

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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers wi...

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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being p...

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To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be mo...

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Thomas JeffersonWorks of Thomas Jefferson. Including The Jefferson Bible

It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.

The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you...

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Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Cong...

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AH I know is what I see in the papers.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humani...

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Alain de BottonThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war...

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A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The so...

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I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balanc...

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Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But wha...

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A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the chan...

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