I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Newspaper Quotes
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. (on American newspapers)
Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.
Lickspittle, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper… the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.
I read nothing but the criminal news and the agony column. The latter is always instructive.
Pillory, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction – prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
The newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’ banks, commands th’ milishy, conthrols th’ ligislachure, baptizes th’ young, marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable, buries th’ dead an’ roasts thim aftherward.
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. (Pentagon Papers)
Journalism is organized gossip.
