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You were merely asked to bend, but you chose to crawl.
L. K. Advaniborn 1927To the Indian press as Information and Broadcasting Minister (1977), on its conduct during the Emergency
- Clever Jabs
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Spiro Agnew1918–1996Speech in San Diego (September 11, 1970)
- Clever Jabs
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888
- Writing
If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Civilization in the United States (1888), p. 177
- America
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
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
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
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Aneurin Bevan1897–1960Interview in The Times (29 March 1960), p. 7
- Clever Jabs
Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you.
Barbara Bush1925–2018Advice about news reporters, to incoming first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a tour of the White House, as quoted in Newsweek magazine (30 November 1992)
- Advice
Power can be very addictive. And it can be corrosive. And it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power.
George W. Bushborn 1946Interview with Matt Lauer (2017)
- Power
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter’s Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841), “The Hero as Man of Letters”
Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
- Writing
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936All Things Considered (1908)
- Politics
I don’t perceive my role as a newsman at all. I’m a comedian from stem to stern.
Stephen Colbertborn 1964When asked what he perceives his role to be, given that many young people claim to get their news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, on newsman.”Harvard University: A Conversation with Stephen Colbert” (1 December 2006).
- Humor