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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826
- Reading
I figured out why I’m not getting seriously rich. I write newspaper columns. Nobody ever makes newspaper columns into Major Motion Pictures starring Tom Cruise. The best you can hope for, with a newspaper column, is that people will like it enough to attach it to their refrigerators with magnets shaped like fruit.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
You should never pick up a newspaper when you’re feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories with headlines like DOORBELL USE LINKED TO LEUKEMIA and OZONE LAYER COMPLETELY GONE DIRECTLY OVER YOUR HOUSE.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press’s speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
Mark Twain1835–1910License of the Press (1873).
- Writing
On the Japanese news, if the announcers had happy faces and perky voices, I knew that meant good news, such as that Japanese scientists had discovered a way to make VCR’s even more difficult for Americans to program; whereas if the announcers had serious voices and frowny faces, it meant bad news, such as the worsening eel shortage.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973Often credited to Margaret Thatcher
- Clever Jabs
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Critic as Artist Part I (1891), Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1905) The Critic As Artist Part II, in Intentions New York, Bretanos. Retrieved from Library of Congress Americana Archive.org 26 February 2018
- Reading
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
ALA. J. Liebling1904–1963Often credited to H. L. Mencken
- Freedom
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than an hundred thousand bayonets.
Napoleon1769–1821Appears to be fabricated as it is not known from surviving print before 19 March 1845 when it appeared in Mississippi Democrat in an article titled ‘The Press’ and in The North-Carolina Standard on its own as a column filler. On April 17, 1845 a long
- Writing
Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
- Writing
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965
- Clever Jabs
- Writing
As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.
Richard Nixon1913–1994
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005
- Truth & Lies
- Writing
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888
- Writing