I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I've thought for years that newspapers should all be owned by nonprofits. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I left the 'Trib' in 1970 with the feeling that I would never have a career in establishment media of any kind. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I'd worked for the 'Dallas Times Herald' for ten years, and its death was a kick in the gut the like of… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The danger of the blogosphere is reading only those you agree with. While there are right-wing blogs that are entertaining freak shows,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I really do think we're going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we're starting to see the effects… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. — Molly Ivins Copy Share
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. — Molly Ivins Copy Share
Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory. — Molly Ivins Copy Share
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. — Molly Ivins Copy Share
Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
