Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. Wells (1866-1946) British-born american Author.
The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
Graham Greene (1904-1991) English writer.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.
I keep reading between the lies.
Goodman Ace (1899-1982) One of the most memorable humourists in the 20th C
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa (1940-1993) American composer and rock musician.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-?) Russian novelist, dramatist
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th president of the U.S.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British journalist, novelist and poet.
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BennyBeaver (1968-) OSU Football Fan during the painfully pass happy Mike Reilly era
Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Norman Mailer (1923-?) American writer.
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) French poet.
I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish poet, and playwright.
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
George Orwell (1903-1950) British novelist, essayist, and critic.
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