Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers

For one thing, newspapers and TV are very expensive.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

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

Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. There’s a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed of transmission are growing; but the traditional gravity of news has...

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

Mtu yoyote anayedanganya ni Shetani, kwani Shetani ni baba wa uongo. Tusikubali kudanganywa ovyo, hasa watoto wetu, katika kipindi hiki cha utandawazi na teknolojia.

What ‘primitive’ men called gossip, ‘civilized’ men call news.

I got hired by a newspaper to write a column on current events, so I wrote about Benjamin Franklin’s charting of the Gulf Stream.

The so-called compensation as far as we are concerned is in the newspapers only.

One of the cardinal rules of journalism: Once you have cabled a story you must stick by it and back it up, unless something completely overwhelming proves you to have been wrong. In such a...

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. “A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth.””But you are not a lady, Jessamine—,”...

I think that of all the principles for journalism, the most important is to complicate simple things and simplify complicated things. At first sight, you may think something is simple, but it may conceal a...

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Newspapers have an agenda that does not match people’s opinions in many cases, … They are out of step politically, they are out of step in coverage. People get fed up with that. Newspapers are...

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd you whom the windows observe shame keeps youFrom entering a church and confessing this morningYou read the prospectuses...

I like to think of this little [newspaper] column as a brassière, or do I mean brasserie? Brazier, possibly. All three! A column that lifts, separates, supports, serves excellent cappuccino and crackles merrily with sweet-smelling...

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

I would tell young journalists to be brave and go against the tide. When everyone else is relying on the internet, you should not; when nobody’s walking, you should walk; when few people are reading...

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, ‘by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only.’...

There are some deep-pocketed guys who want to own newspapers.

We have people in print who think about circulation, ad sales, producing and delivering newspapers, and they’re very print-focused because they grew up there. They don’t think about online. And we have a separate online...

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.