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Quotes About Newspapers

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.
~ Gavin MacLeod
Always bring a book, as protection against strangers. Magazines don't last. Newspapers from home will make you homesick, and newspapers from elsewhere will remind you you don't belong. You know how alien another paper's typeface seems.)
~ Anne Tyler
And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
~ Scott Westerfeld
What was this place?" Tally asked. "I think they made newspapers here," David said. "Like books, but you threw them away and got a new one every day." "You're kidding." "Not at all. And you thought we wasted trees in the Smoke!
~ Scott Westerfeld
Nevertheless, the inquiry turned up evidence to prove that with the help of mobsters, Post officials were dumping newspapers into the East River, incorporating them into the paper's circulation statistics, and thereby boosting advertising rates.
~ Selwyn Raab
The press, in other words, was free, but some newspapers (the British-owned ones) were freer than others.
~ Shashi Tharoor
The English newspapers have made me so angry, that I scarcely know whether I am as much ashamed, yet the shame is very great. As if the people of France had not a right to vote as they pleased! We understand nothing in England.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poor France, poor France! News of the dreadful massacre at Paris just reaches us, and the letters and newspapers not arriving to-day, everybody fears a continuation of the crisis. How is it to end? Who 'despairs of the republic?' Why, I do! I fear, I fear, that it cannot stand in France, and you seem to have not much more hope.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Observe, I am no Napoleonist. I am simply a democrat, and hold that the majority of a nation has the right of choice upon the question of its own government, even where it makes a mistake. Therefore the outcry of the English newspapers is most disgusting to me.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.
~ Elizabeth Peters
all German-language newspapers in the United States were required to give English translations of anything they printed about the government.
~ Arthur Herman
cement in bold relief,—far underground. I lean my elbows on the table, and the lamp lights brightly the newspapers I am fool enough to re-read, and the absurd books.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) Whenever the ACRC released a new policy, it made a feature report by issue to communicate with the people. When an important policy issue occurs, the Chairman and high-ranking officials directly and actively held media interviews and contributed to newspapers for the better understanding of the people
~ Aury Wallington
O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) tations, and schedules of its international conferences in order to draw attention at home and abroad on Korea's anticorruption and integrity policies. In particular, the feature reports and joint campaigns conducted with the representative English newspapers in Korea, the Korea Times and the Korea Herald, resulted in new accomplishments such as favorable foreign news reports
~ Aury Wallington
There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.
~ Jim Irsay
It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
~ Mary Ritter Beard
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
~ H. G. Bissinger
From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.
~ Rupert Murdoch
I'm not naive and realise it doesn't make good commentary or sell newspapers if you only say nice things, and the time does come when you have to say someone isn't good enough and has to go. But commentators like Richie Benaud have shown that criticism can be made in a constructive or humorous way.
~ Nasser Hussain
Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.
~ Kenneth Koch
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.
~ Eric Alterman
For newspapers to continue to play an important role in civic engagement, they need more access to capital. Their decline has created a real threat to independent reporting at the state and local level.
~ Ajit Pai
While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.
~ Elayne Boosler