44 quotes found
“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
“We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.”
“I brought the newspaper close up to my eyes to get a better view of George Pollucci's face, spotlighted like a three-quarter moon against a vague background of brick and black sky. I felt he had so...”
“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.”
“There is a fearful moment of reckoning before us should it ever chance that when all our trees shall have been sacrificed on the altar of the patron-fiend of news, the newspaper supply shall sudden...”
“Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.”
“Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy.”
“I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”
“Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.”
“Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
“Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.”
“Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.”
“One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.”
“The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.”
“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.”
“Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the f...”
“He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.”
“An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.”
“The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.”
“News is the first rough draft of history.”
