NEWS QUOTES III

quotations about the news media

In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.

CRISS JAMI

Venus in Arms


All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

GEORGE ORWELL

Why I Write

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The newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

2001: A Space Odyssey

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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

ARTHUR MILLER

London Observer

Tags: Arthur Miller


News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Ham on Rye

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News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried.

TOBA BETA

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut


Ill news, madam,
Are swallow-winged, but what's good
Walks on crutches.

PHILIP MASSINGER

Picture


Without news to feed it, the biggest story starves.

EMLYN WILLIAMS

Beyond Belief


Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Dance Dance Dance

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Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Deserted Village

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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A. J. LEIBLING

The Wayward Press


Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Money and Class in America

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Journalism is in fact history on the run. It is history written in time to be acted upon: thereby not only recording events but at times influencing them.

THOMAS GRIFFETH

attributed, Nieman Reports, 1958


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

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to John Norvell, June 11, 1807

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How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale, that the verity of it is in strong suspicion.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Winter's Tale

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Journalism is ... the recording of history while the facts are not all in.

THOMAS GRIFFETH

attributed, Nieman Reports, 1958


Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.

JOHN DRYDEN

Threnodia Augustalis

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News is the manna of a day.

M. GREEN

attributed, Day's Collacon


The greatest influence over content was necessity--they had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words, provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.

TOM RACHMAN

The Imperfectionists


I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

DAVE BARRY

Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down

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