Quotations about Media
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
-James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982
Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
-G.K. Chesterton
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
-Matthew Arnold
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
-Thomas Jefferson
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
-George Bernard Shaw, 1931
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
-Albert Camus
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
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