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 […]
Newspaper Quotes
People don’t actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath.
Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
To us, who are regaled every morning and evening with intelligence, and are supplied from day to day with materials for conversation, it is difficult to conceive how man can consist without a newspaper, or to what entertainment companies can assemble, in those wide regions of the earth that have neither Chronicles nor Magazines, neither […]
I never read the papers. Why does anyone? They’re nearly all lies, and one has to wade through such reams of verbiage and “write up” to find out even what they’re saying.
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
Tilford Moots wuz over t’ the’ Henryville poor farm th’ other day t’ see an ole friend o’ his thet used t’ publish a newspaper thet pleased ever’buddy.
If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously approved, power must always be the standard of truth.
Freedom of the press is useless when people do not understand what they read.
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.
