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“There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost…

— George Orwell

The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“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

“The image of Griff being handcuffed while spread-eagled against a police cruiser had been beamed to screens around the world, but the press wasn’t…

— Michele Campbell

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

— Henry Louis Mencken

Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the…

— Richard Kluger

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power,…

— Mark Twain

“the Chicago Tribune said on February 8, 1937: . . . . there is entertainment in erudition.”

— Judith C. Waller

“At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits of decorum; literature itself was a totally extraneous…

— Vladimir Odoevsky

“Most of those who could have done something to prevent the crime and did not consoled themselves with the pretext that affairs of honor…

— Gabriel García Márquez

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced…

— H. L. Mencken

“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.”

— Toby Young