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Quotes About Newspapers

The smaller newspapers probably won't have any critics at all. Maybe that's not such a bad thing because there's a certain level of seriousness that you can't get with a small newspaper for critics.
~ Terry Teachout
I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.
~ Nick Clegg
A little eccentricity is a help to a general. It helps with the newspapers. The women love it too. Southern women like their men religious and a little mad. That's why the fall in love with preachers.
~ Michael Shaara
Los periódicos tienen para mí una gran ventaja y es que no hacen ruido. Su aburrimiento es silencioso; no se entrometen; es posible dejarlos a un lado, meterlos en el cubo de la basura.
~ Milan Kundera
I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
~ Ted Turner
I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.
~ Betty Friedan
Sloan wondered if newspapers weren't a little hypocritical, demanding one standard for others and another for themselves; he doubted that reporters had any idea of the anguish they could inflict with only one sentence
~ Carl Bernstein
Cab Mulcahy was a patient man, especially for a managing editor. He had been in newspapers his entire adult life and almost nothing could provoke him. Whenever the worst kind of madness gripped the newsroom, Mulcahy would emerge to take charge, instantly imposing a rational and temperate mood.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Then one morning, while shredding newspapers for the rodent cages, he spotted a headline that would change his destiny: CONGRESS MULLS $8 BILLION PLAN FOR EVERGLADES RESTORATION.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. They can put independent and even rebellious ideas in the heads of their subjects.
~ Carl Sagan
Many harebrained interpretations were also widely available, especially in weekly newspapers.
~ Carl Sagan
As the weather improved, the bobms got worse. The newspapers said that the Kaiser was aiming to knock London down (although avoiding Buckingham Palace, so as not to hit his relations).
~ Kate Williams
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
~ G. K. Chesterton
He kept a watchful eye on politics through his reading of numerous newspapers and had aides keep him updated on the results of elections so that he could immediately send congratulatory letters to the winners. Knowing that those who lost might be back again, in that office or some other, he sent them letters too, thanking them for their service to their country.
~ Bruce Chadwick
Presently we began to have our slices of the national cake," F. Scott Fitzgerald remembered, "and our idealism only flared up when the newspapers made melodrama out of such stories as Harding and the Ohio Gang or Sacco and Vanzetti.
~ Bruce Watson
Ulica Krokodyli by?a koncesj? naszego miasta na rzecz nowoczesno?ci i zepsucia wielkomiejskiego. Widocznie nie sta? nas by?o na nic innego, jak na papierow? imitacj?, jak na fotomonta? z?o?ony z wycinków zle?a?ych, zesz?orocznych gazet.
~ Bruno Schulz
It seems quite clear that much of this intense activity for Progressive reform was intended to head off socialism. Easley talked of "the menace of Socialism as evidenced by its growth in the colleges, churches, newspapers." In 1910, Victor Berger became the first member of the Socialist party elected to Congress; in 1911, seventy-three Socialist mayors were elected, and twelve hundred lesser officials in 340 cities and towns. The press spoke of "The Rising Tide of Socialism.
~ Howard Zinn
They were professionally deviant, but they had a few things in common. They depended, mostly from habit, on newspapers and magazines for the bulk of their income; their lives were geared to long chances and sudden movement; and they claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
the greatly exaggerated hullabaloo recently created, largely by newspapers wanting 'a story', about the resurgence of Nazism and anti-Semitism.
~ Ian Fleming
If you are an addict yourself, how are you going to fight drugs? That's why the dope test is compulsory for Punjab Police personnel and youngsters joining, regardless of what newspapers are saying that women should be exempted.
~ Amarinder Singh
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.
~ Russell Baker
My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In order to fight against our tribe's termination, he went to newspapers and politicians and urged them to advocate for our tribe in Washington. He also supported his family through the Depression as a truck farmer.
~ Louise Erdrich
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
~ Henry A. Wallace