Newspapers Quotes

“Sunlight on a wooden floor;
morning paper, toast and tea.
Books at night, put out the light,
That's happiness for me.”
― John Palen

“I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The most unliterary reader of all sticks to 'the news'. He reads daily, with unwearied relish, how, in some place he has never seen, under circumstances which never become quite clear, someone he doesn't know has married, rescued, robbed, raped, or murdered someone else he doesn't know.”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

“My friends, one last word: I will be scrutinizing the election like a hawk. If I weren't, if the newspapers weren't being vigilant against the corrupt men of the world, we would be lost. Ours wouldn't be a democracy. And let us only hope for the peace of our beloved village that propriety in this election, and all future elections, will be observed.”
― Lauren Groff, The Monsters of Templeton

“Newcomers to success always seek attention and be seen in the newspapers; while the truly rich people hide behind closed doors.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“I sometimes think as if I am corporate media; I put myself in their shoes: If I could profit off a situation, how would I spin it for the maximum amount of traffic yet still be taken seriously? This, I believe when listening, reading, or watching, helps to discern truth from fact and decipher fact from fiction. It helps to weed out the sensationalism, and you gain a more accurate depiction of the world's actual condition.”
― Criss Jami

“It is usually known that newspapers do not say the truth, but it is also known that they cannot tell whoppers.”
― George Orwell, Orwell on Truth

“Recent research has shown that traffickers are no longer just kidnapping individuals off of the street, but they are now employing new tactics to find their potential victims.”
― Asa Don Brown

“If you look at African American newspapers from the very early 20th century, there is an ongoing discussion about the problems with policing. Literally nonstop 100 plus year problem...

(4/12/2021 on Twitter)”
― Imani Perry

“The first true newspapers, which conveyed information from around the world and were intended for a wide audience, started to be circulated in the early seventeenth century….By 1640, there were nine newspapers in Amsterdam alone…A few decades later there were hundreds of dailies across Europe. The news had finally become a business. Anything that might pique readers’ interest and boost sales was considered newsworthy by the publishers, regardless of whether it was actually important. This fundamental fraud - the new being sold as the relevant - has persisted to this day. It remains the dominant model in print, online, on social media, the radio and television.”
― Ralph Dobelli

“Newspaper letters review the deserted cities
& drowse at the windows in pale sun & the evening breeze’s rales.

The train has stopped.
("Anna Karenina / October 18, 1910," Translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould )”
― Hasan Alizadeh, House Arrest

“The first newspapers were simply devices for organizing gossip, and that, to a greater or less extent, they have remained.”
― Robert Ezra Park, The City: Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment

“La presse, si bavarde dans l'affaire des rats, ne parlait plus de rien. C'est que les rats meurent dans la rue et les hommes dans leur chambre. Et les journaux ne s'occupent que de la rue. (The press, so talkative in the case of the rats, were no longer speaking of anything. That's because rats die in the street and people die in their rooms. And the newspapers are only interested in the street.)”
― Albert Camus, La Peste d'Albert Camus

“Images of white, semi clad women in colour would be very conspicuous in an otherwise unintelligible newspaper to Nanaki. It was somewhat incongruous to see little pictures, sourced from foreign news agencies, of white women in bikinis, sun tanning on a beach in Zakynthos or a procession of revellers in Sao Paulo complete with exotic costume regalia: trailing pheasant feathers for tails, operatic masks tantalisingly revealing pouty red lips, breasts protruding out of sequinned two pieces, women’s toned derrieres jutting out of glitzy g-strings vibrating animalistically to the samba, shapely legs fitting snugly into gold stilettos. Others showed women walking down the ramp in skimpy lingerie at a Missoni fashion show in Milan. At times these sights would intrigue Nanaki. For her, Urdu was unintelligible, just black marks on paper. Who reads this newspaper? And who are these pictures for? Whose reality is this?”
― Sakoon Singh, In The Land of The Lovers

“Newspapers keep the government busy and the people guessing.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“The printing press has published more ghosts and spirits than god has.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“[B]ut newspapers nowadays had too many pages, no one could proof everything before it went to press, and even the major newspapers were now writing “Simone de Beauvoire,” or “Beaudelaire,” or “Roosvelt,” and the proofreader was becoming as outmoded as the Gutenberg press.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“Gotta love life's little ironies, for the same man once said:

"Were it left for to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."

And

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I will create a blog, magazine and newspaper website by WordPress newspaper theme”
― Liman mia

“I have always believed in living in the present; not only to-day, but the very present instant. News that is a day or two days old has lost its interest for me.”
― Clarence Hawkes, Hitting the Dark Trail

“Genuine newspapers give us news.
Propaganda only gives us rubbish.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“But something very bad happened to the news media in the 1980s. Part of it was the 'public diplomacy' pressures from the outside. But part of it was the smug, snotty, sophomoric crowd that came to dominate the national media from the inside. These characters fell in love with their power to define reality, not their responsibility to uncover the facts. By the 1990s, the media had become the monster.”
― Gary Webb, Dark Alliance

“El Grito Del Norte,’ a Chicano newspaper based in Espanola, New Mexico, was born from the revolutionary flames that engulfed the Southwest in the late 1960s and the early 1970s.”
― Enriqueta Vasquez, Enriqueta Vasquez And the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito Del Norte (Hispanic Civil Rights)

“It is by the press we educate the public mind and link the people of most distant parts together in bonds of fraternity and comradeship. We can keep track of the work and accomplishments of our comrades in no other way, except by the medium of paper.”
― Lucy Parsons

“Perhaps no editor has been so guilty of stirring up the baser passions of human beings as [William Randolph] Hearst. Often in his early years as an editor and publisher, he did some political arousings on the side of the workers. It helped him get circulation. Gradually, however, he evolved a policy which prevailed over all liberal doctrines that he might advocate-devoting his publications to the will of the big moneyed interests to have and to retain everything that they possessed and to insure their hopes of getting more through their 'superior intelligence”
― Art Young, Art Young: His Life and Times

“Mainstream media ignores the bulk of news releases.”
― Steven Magee

“Advertisers control the news.”
― Steven Magee

“Acknowledge the power of the maddening in the sea of newspapers.”
― Florin-Marian Hera, Ten Loud Rocks

“You separate the Sunday sections and there are endless identical lines of print with people living somewhere in the words and the strange contained reality of paper and ink seeps through the house for a week and when you look at the page and distinguish from line from another it begins to gather you into it and there are people being tortured halfway around the world, who speak another language, and you have conversations with them more or less uncontrollably until you become aware you are doing it and then you stop, seeing whatever is in front of you at the time, like half a glass of juice in your husband's hand.”
― Don DeLillo, The Body Artist

“​In a free state, there should always be an inquirer asking on behalf of the people”
― John Norvell