44 quotes found
“It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.”
“What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.”
“A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.”
“The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.”
“Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.”
“A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure ...”
“Newspapers are the world's mirrors.”
“Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.”
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
“Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.”
“AH I know is what I see in the papers.”
“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...”
“Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.”
“I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”
“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.”
“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 fact...”
“He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.”
