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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington. - Wendell Phillips We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. - Wendell Phillips The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, To Lord Grenville The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. - Alexander Pope, Epistles of Horace (ep. I, bk. II, l. 108) Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. - Gerald Priestland, in the "Observer", May 22, 1988 Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. - Anna Quindlen The thing is written. It is true. [Fr., Cela est escrit. Il est vray.] - Francois Rabelais, Pantagruel Can it be maintained that a person of any education can learn anything worth knowing from a penny paper? It may be said that people may learn what is said in Parliament. Well, will that contribute to their education? - Lord Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Speeches, House of Commons, 1861, on the repeal of paper duties Comment is free, but facts are sacred. - C.P. Scott, in the "Manchester Guardian" Report me and my cause aright To the unsatisfied. - William Shakespeare But I'll report it Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles; Where great patricians shall attend and shrug, I' th' end admire; where ladies shall be frighted, And, gladly quaked, hear more; where the dull tribunes, That with the fusty plebeians hate thine honors, Shall say against their hearts, 'We thank the gods Our Rome hath such a soldier.' - William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Cominius at I, ix) Horatio, I am dead; Thou livest; report me and my cause aright To the unsatisfied. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, ii) Bring me no more reports. Let them fly all! - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at V, iii) The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villanous--licentious--abominable--infernal--not that I ever read them--no--I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic (act I, sc. 1) Trade hardly deems the busy day begun Till his keen eye along the sheet has run; The blooming daughter throws her needle by, And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh; While the grave mother puts her glasses on, And gives a tear to some old crony gone. The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down To know what last new folly fills the town; Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things, The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. - Charles Sprague An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff. - Adlai E. Stevenson Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins. - Tom Stoppard Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain; Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law. - Justice Joseph Story, motto of the Salem Register, in Wm. W. Story's "Life of Joseph Story". vol. I, ch. VI The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair. - William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers--The Thorn in the Cushion Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books. - Theodore Tilton Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as please. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), interview with Rudyard Kipling, in "From Sea to Sea" (epistle 37) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Displaying page 3 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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