Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?
MARY CLEMMER AMES, The Journalist
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
BEN HECHT, quoted in Jewish Wit and Wisdom
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.
G.K. CHESTERTON, All Things Considered
The way to prevent irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs through the channel of the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me 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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Colonel Edward Carrington, Jan. 16, 1787
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