Helping Quote by H. L. Mencken

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

— H. L. Mencken

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

— Tom Wolfe

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

— Oscar Wilde

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

— Nadine Gordimer

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and…

— Potter Stewart

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

— Bob Woodward

“Newspapers are not made any longer by news or journalism. They are made by sheer weight of money expressed in free gift schemes. They…

— Oswald Mosley

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

— Mark Twain

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other.…

— Jim Bishop

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

— Rupert Murdoch

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them.…

— Michael Moore

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to…

— Craig Newmark