Newspapers Quotes

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.

The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.

He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.

News is the first rough draft of history.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.

Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.