Quotes about Newspapers

"The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from [pool coverage of] military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment."
-Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

"The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments."
-Anne Sullivan

"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
-Charles Baudelaire

"It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security."
-Agnetha Faltskog

"Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond."
-James Cramer

"The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not."
-Herbert Bayard Swope

"The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a "good murder"; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions."
-Pete Hamill

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
-Thomas Jefferson

"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."
-Wendell Phillips

"The newspapers said we're in an 'information age' but the kids have never seen a computer."
-Li Xiangping

"There are many stories that don't get covered with two newspapers, and I can't imagine how many stories won't get covered with only one."
-Blois Olson

"We are exploring strategic options for the whole company and we have no interest in selling individual newspapers or groups of newspapers."
-Polk Laffoon

"You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be."
-Joseph Campbell

"Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public."
-Charles Richter

"Everybody, including the newspapers doubted us and said we couldn't do it. Nobody gave us a fighting chance and that motivated us. Madison Central is back. It's not about me, it's about the whole team."
-Reggie Hicks

"In all of the cities where we have newspapers, we run the business."
-Tony Ridder

"Newspapers will, no doubt, also ultimately settle into their own place as the bulk provider of low-cost advertising targets."
-Jon Markman

"During this difficult time, with the war in Iraq dominating news coverage, more and more readers and viewers are turning to our newspapers."
-Dennis Fitzsimons

"It strikes me that you are trying to use the newspapers' good name for your own purposes."
-Charles Wheeler

"We need all that mixture of paper (junk mail, catalogs and newspapers) to recycle quality newsprint."
-David Oliver

"The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure."
-I. F. Stone

"Efforts for compromise are being made while the offensive campaign is gathering steam and more newspapers are publishing the cartoon. There will be no compromise before we get an apology."
-Hassan Nasrallah

"The people of this community have the right, previously recognized by this court, to have a say in the future of these two newspapers."
-Dmitri Iglitzin

"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
-Walt Whitman

"When burglars see mail built up in the mailbox and newspapers laying on the driveway they know the person isn't at home."
-Dennis Martin

"For one thing, newspapers and TV are very expensive."
-Dubose Egleston

"About 18 to 20 percent of the newspapers that reported had gains and most of those were smaller-market newspapers."
-John Kimball

"The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside."
-Brooks Atkinson