Blameless Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“Mirror, Standard, Telegraph, Birmingham Post, Sketch, all careful to report accurately the events without editorial comment. Unlike some countries, the British press must be…

— Leon Uris

“The very violence of a revolution may make the public grand and splendid for a moment. It was a fatal day when the public…

— Oscar Wilde

“What are the fifty newspapers, which those precocious urchins are bawling down the street, and which are kept filed within, what are they but…

— Charles Dickens

More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging…

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

“the easy bit – passing the material to sympathetic journalists – was proving tricky.”

— Luke Harding

The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content…

— Mark Twain

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

— Don Marquis

“This process of con- tinuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs—to every…

— George Orwell

Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has…

— Samuel Johnson

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

“What I fault newspapers for is that day after day they draw our attention to insignificant things whereas only three or four times in…

— Marcel Proust

“The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a…

— H. L. Mencken