Pretty average headlines for a worldwide catastrophe,” Jane remarked as she read from Hollywood’s Highest. “Some man in Africa claimed to have found the cure for AIDS, yet another politician said something about the president...

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

NEWSPAPER: What great paper is the Earth; what a typeface is the Day; what ink is the Night! – Everyone prints, everyone reads; no one understands.

Ohio’s newspapers and Republican Party leaders have spoken out against Ken Blackwell’s negative attacks. We wanted to share their words with Ohio voters.

I used to think the most important thing for a reporter was to be where the news is and be the first to know. Now I feel a reporter should be able to effect change....

I’m sure it’s all journalism […] It means it’s true enough for now.

As the final computerized decade of the twentieth century came into view, time itself seemed to speed up and compress into smaller and smaller bytes, leaving less and less time over the breakfast table to...

Apollinaire said a poet should be ‘of his time.’ I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in...

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

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

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

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits,their judges and chronicles,their epistles and revelations.

Media work needs ideals. Maybe thirty years from now, after I retire, I’ll see the media mature and make the transition from political party, interest group, and corporate to truly public. But over the next...

As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists….

Beside him Mr. Harris folded his morning newspaper and held it out to Claude.”Seen this yet?””No.””Don’t read it,” Mr. Harris said, folding the paper once more and sliding it under his rear. “It will only...

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Six men control almost all the media in the United States–book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappeared from the surface of our society....

We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who’d just smoked a...

A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A Memoir for an English newspaper. The experience was proving to be a degradation...

I think journalism anywhere should be based on social justice and impartiality, making contributions to society as well as taking responsibility in society. Whether you are capitalist or socialist or Marxist, journalists should have the...

I’m not a ref, but I assigned her the penalty of clipping, and I told her to drop the scissors and step away from the newspaper ads.

It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head...

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

I didn’t hear about it, the note, until it was published in the newspapers that following January.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn’t hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren’t about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn’t ravenous just for a newspaper that had no...

He wanted us to know before it came out in the newspapers. I think we’re all pretty excited. We haven’t met her, but we’re looking forward to getting to know her. From everything we’ve heard,...

Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out!

…wearing a turban of yellow, signifying knowledge, and a robe of purple, portraying purity and activity, Virchand Gandhi of Bombay delivered a lecture on the religions of India….

Don’t tell me about the Press. I know *exactly* who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by the people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think...

They’ve got a database of images and they sell it to newspapers, magazines, ad agencies and it’s a lot cheaper for these outfits now to license an image from Getty than to hire a photographer...

Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went tothe police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the frontpages of every newspaper in the country? Would the glare of...

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

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade reading level. If so, I can’t figure out why journalists would write something...

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

A free press doesn’t mean it’s not a tame press.

Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in a retirement home feeding elderly people. . . so I never stopped and...

News is not just about information from media, it’s the current revelation of the two changing worlds of the good and the dark worlds.

Newspapers across the state have referred to those ads as vile, loathsome, a smear.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

Now listen,’ said George angrily, ‘I’ve been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you what’s going on.”Nonsense. If there’s one place in the world where nobody knows what’s going on,...

The newspapers have a great role to play; but they are content to cater to the vulgar tastes and become waste papers soon.

It’s from the newspapers that people I know – relatives and co-workers – have got the idea that crosswords are a prophylactic against Alzheimer’s. Newspapers are of course also the place where crosswords (and now...

I would imagine that most people who read newspapers and look at Web sites are aware of headlines being made on substantially higher metal costs. If retailer costs go up, eventually the consumer pays for...

You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Th’ newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’ banks, commands th’ milishy, controls th’ ligislachure, baptizes th’ young, marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable, buries th’ dead...

A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

Probably no country was ever ruled by so mean a class of tyrants as, with a few noble exceptions, are the editors of the periodical press in this country. And as they live and rule...