Half the American population no longer reads
newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
?Gore Vidal
A newspaper should be the maximum of
information, and the minimum of comment.
?Richard Cobden
From the American newspapers you'd
think America was populated solely
by naked women and cinema stars.
?Nancy Astor
If words were invented to conceal
thought, newspapers are a great
improvement of a bad invention.
?Henry David Thoreau
In these times we fight for ideas,
and newspapers are our fortresses.
?Heinrich Heine
People everywhere confuse what
they read in newspapers with news.
?A. J. Liebling
Some newspapers are fit only to
line the bottom of bird cages.
?Spiro T. Agnew
The difference between burlesque and the
newspapers is that the former never pretended
to be performing a public service by exposure.
?I. F. Stone
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated
than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
?Thomas Jefferson
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
We live under a government of
men and morning newspapers.
?Wendell Phillips
