People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin
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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
Joseph Campbell
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Norman Mailer "Esquire", June 1960
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But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Oscar Wilde The Critic as Artist, 1891
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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Russel Lynes
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Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Stephen Leacock
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Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
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I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
Jerry Seinfeld
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
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Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.
Bagdikian's Observation
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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
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
Cyril Connolly Enemies of Promise (1938)
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard
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Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa quoted in Linda Botts, "Loose Talk" (1980)
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
G. K. Chesterton
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
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All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
H. L. Mencken
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
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