I like a good newspaper. It’s nice to read The Economist on a plane, while scumbags help themselves to your unlocked suitcase. But print pubs are relics, aren’t they? Relics of last week and relics of a time when the only way to widely distribute media was to chop down a tree, pulp it, buy […]
Newspaper Quotes
A free press is in the eye of the people, always and everywhere open, the trust a people has in itself, the words that tie each person to the State and the world. It is a light for the people, a mirror in which a people sees itself.
How to ward off atrophy and routine, you ask? Well, I can give you a small and perhaps ridiculous example. Every day, the New York Times carries a motto in a box on its front page. “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” it says. It’s been saying it for decades, day in and day […]
In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At this time the task of the news-writer is easy; they have nothing to do but to tell that a battle is expected, and afterwards that a battle has been fought, […]
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.
Journals are daily multiplied without increase of knowledge. The tale of the morning paper is told again in the evening, and the narratives of the evening are bought again in the morning.
We must get rid of our arrogant assumption that it is the masses who can be led by the nose. As far as I can make out, the shoe is on the other foot. The only people who are really the dupes of their favorite newspapers are the intelligentsia. It is they who read leading […]
People don’t actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath.
