Newspapers Quotes

What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.

~ Lester Markel

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

~ A. J. Liebling

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

~ Arthur Miller

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.

~ John Gunther

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

~ Fred Friendley

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 of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail grow indispensable.

~ Cyril Connolly

The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition you add some shock headlines - mother kills four children, savings at risk of going up in smoke, letter from Garibaldi insulting his lieutenant Nino Bixio discovered, etc. - so news drowns in a great sea of information.

~ Umberto Eco