Quote by John E. Douglas

“Take away the newspaper—and this country of ours would become a scene of chaos. Without daily assurance of the exact facts—so far as we…

— Harry Chandler

“Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.”

— Paul Tobin

“If the journalist is secretly the tool of some invisible public relations machine or vested commercial interest it is the public whose interest is…

— Ian Hargreaves

“The papers are read               or if nothing else,                             pissed on, the headlines still remain.”

— Kenyatta García

“Newspapers are a great place for cowards and malcontents to have their say.”

— Jeff Shaara

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

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

— Luke Harding

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

“Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.”

— Charles Lamb

“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and…

— Lionel Shriver

“Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets.”

— Mira Grant