Quotes About Media

Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.

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.

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

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

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.

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

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

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

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

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

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

AH I know is what I see in the papers.

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?