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- The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
- David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
- Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
- William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
- For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
- Gloria Borger
- Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
- Hodding Carter
- Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
- 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 (1880 - 1956)
- People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
- A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
- Literature is news that stays news.
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
- 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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