Freedom of the press is useless when people do not understand what they read.
Newspaper Quotes
The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high-school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station lawyer.
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement.
I am a printer, and a printer of news;… I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so be it news.
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements.
Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.
It (The New York Times) reads like it was edited by two elderly sociologists, one of whom has been dead for many years.
