America’s next great newspaper is a wonderful idea – but it will have to be published on the web and not on paper, and as a new style web newspaper, not one of today’s conventional web-based losers. It is coming – and (in the nature of things) it will redefine the news story and the […]
Newspaper Quotes
What the proprietorship of these newspapers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot through the ages.
The Times is speechless, and it takes three columns to express its speechlessness.
The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
It’s always darkest before dawn. So if you’re going to steal the neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor can take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Its (the press’s) function of telling people what happened was subordinated to the apparently greater function of saving the nation’s business. Having adopted the official doctrine that business was fundamentally sound and that the only trouble was lack of confidence, most of the newspapers were trying to make their readers confident again and to banish […]
I’m in Ohio right now, visiting family. The folks in the suburb where I grew up – good, honest people I truly care about – read their paper every single day, and are almost assuredly under the illusion that they’re informing themselves about the world. Quite plainly the opposite. I’ll say it again: What they’re […]
