Quotes
Media Quotes By Famous People Of World
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
- Warren Chappell
You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.
- Rose Maccaulay
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
- Edmund Burke
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
- Henry Fielding
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.
- Akbar S. Ahmed
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
- Nadine Gordimer
Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
- G.K. Chesterton
I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
- Hugo L. Black
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
- Paul Sweeney
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
- Ernest Bevin
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
- Christopher Morley
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
- Charles Baudelaire
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
- George Bernard Shaw
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross dressed as science.
- Linda Bowles
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being.
- Thomas Jefferson
As long as I don’t write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
- Pierre Augustin
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
- Edmund Burke
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
- William Tecumseh
Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor’s prejudices as the advertiser’s won’t object to.
- Helen Swaffer
I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures.
- Earl Warren
A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to sseparate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
- Elbert Hubbard
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. Johnson
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
- Malcolm X
It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.
- Charles Osgood
