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Newspapers Quotes by Russell Baker
- Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
- The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day…
- Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry…
- It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on…
- A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if…
- After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together…
- The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.
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- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. — Russell Baker
- The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are… — Russell Baker
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker
- Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna… — Russell Baker
- Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. — Dave Barry
- All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps,… — Mario Batali
- I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. — Charles Baudelaire
- Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent… — Charles Baudelaire
- When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but… — Glenn Beck
- The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than… — Henry Ward Beecher
- America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. — Alexander Graham Bell