To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Newspaper Quotes
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being.
The press is a midden heap, full of bits and pieces of things, some of them true, and maybe valuable, but all of them fragments from which the citizen must construct his own distorted portrait of reality. I object to the idea that somehow the press, the media, are going to provide the people with […]
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.
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 […]
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.
