newspapers

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

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.

News is the first rough draft of history.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.

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.

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 that his work by its very todayness is excluded from any share in tomorrow.

Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

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.