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• I’ve always said there’s a place for the press but they haven’t dug it yet. Tommy Docherty
• All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. Bobby Knight, on reporters
• Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. Anna Quindlen
• If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast. William Tecumseh Sherman
• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi
• No news is good news. No journalists is even better. Nicolas Bentley
• The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. Lyndon Johnson
• Politics,  Advertising,   Watch less television

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What is published in the media is very often far from the truth … 

• Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first- hand knowledge. Erwin Knoll
• The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts… How does the media do this? By quoting some “expert”… you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything. Peter McWilliams
• People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to. Jerry Seinfeld
• You don’t realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown. Robert Brault
• People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. A.J. Liebling
• We are so cleverly manipulated and influenced by the media and establishments on both the right and left, that the truth has become hopelessly lost in semantics. Jules Carlysle
• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. Walter Lippmann
• The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements. Thomas Jefferson
• Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Nathaniel Macon
• Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Mark Twain
• Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that it isn’t deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction. Criss Jami
• If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain or Thomas Jefferson
• Truth

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… due to mistakes …

• A newspaper, as I’m sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes. Lemony Snicket
• Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. Adlai E. Stevenson
• In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. Ellen Goodman
• Journalism: Literature in a hurry
• Mistakes

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… due to the distortion of facts …

• In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. Paul Eldridge
• Get your facts first, and then you can distort ’em as much as you please. Mark Twain
• Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. Norman Mailer
• Facts

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… due to bias…

• The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover. Al Franken
• The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness. Jon Stewart
• I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food. Kanye West

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As a result, the media leaves the public misinformed and uninformed 

• The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson
• If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain or Thomas Jefferson
• All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance. Will Rogers
• A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. L. Mencken

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The media exists largely to make money for itself 

• Journalism: Buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound. 
• If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. Edward R. Murrow
• The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover. Al Franken

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The media exists more to entertain, distract, delude, amuse and insulate than to inform 

• We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late. Edward R. Murrow
• What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. W. H. Auden
• The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. Tom Stoppard
• The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. Teresa Stover

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The media has evolved to cater for the public’s low attention span and desire to consume in small bites 

• The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. Warren Chappell
• Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. Cyril Connolly
• The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayadère of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, “Look at me.” Illustrations, loud simplifications… bill poster advertising — only these stand a chance. Henry James
• Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day – 23 minutes – and that’s supposed to be enough. Walter Cronkite
• Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. Robert Bresson
• Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Attention

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The public gets the kind of media it wants and deserves 

• The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. Oscar Wilde
• People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to. Jerry Seinfeld
• Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. Dick Cavett

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Journalism is about filling space 

• Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. Rebecca West
• A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. Henry Fielding
• It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. Jerry Seinfeld

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The media publishes and broadcasts a great deal of rubbish 

• They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. James G. Watt
• Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. Elbert Hubbard
• I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. Charles Baudelaire
• Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism. Graham Greene
• 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
• Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. Spiro T. Agnew

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The media is often more hype than thought 

• In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis of moral behavior. And because of the power of the media, for millions of men and women the only venue where moral questions are discussed and weighed is the talk show, where more often than not the primary aim is to entertain, even shock, not to think. When Geraldo and Oprah become the arbiters of public morality, when the opinion of the latest media personality is sought on everything from abortion to transvestites, when banality is mistaken for profundity because [it’s] uttered by a movie star or a basketball player, it is not surprising that there is less thought than hype. Oprah shapes more of the nation’s grasp of right and wrong than most of the pulpits in the land. Personal and social ethics have been removed from the realms of truth and structures of thoughts; they have not only been relativized, but they have been democratized and trivialized. D.A. Carson

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The media is organised gossip 

• Journalism is organized gossip. Edward Egglestone
• To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Henry David Thoreau
• Gossip

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The media loves to amplify everything 

• The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. David Brinkley
• Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. George Bernard Shaw
• If everything is amplified, we hear nothing. Jon Stewart

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The media loves to sensationalise and create drama 

• Upon comparing BBC News with CNN: Melodrama is something foreigners do. Jslayeruk
• The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness. Jon Stewart
• It’s all storytelling, you know. That’s what journalism is all about. Tom Brokaw

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The media bombards us with sensation, leaving little room for reflection and thought 

• The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void…. That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window. Jean Baudrillard
• The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking. Ray Bradbury
• Thinking,  Reflection

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The media has a great deal of power … 

• Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. Philip K. Dick
• Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. Allen Ginsberg
• Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. Jim Morrison
• The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination. Akbar S. Ahmed
• The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. Malcolm X
• The media’s power is frail. Without the people’s support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch. Corazon Aquino

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… and is controlled by those who own the media and those who advertise through it 

• Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. J. Liebling
• With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day. Kingman Brewster, Jr.
• Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor’s prejudices as the advertisers won’t object to. Helen Swaffer
• All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. George Orwell, Why I Write

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The media has become a public relations agency for the powerful 

• The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the public’s general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. It has evolved into an entity that tends to function as a public relations agency for wealthy and powerful multinational corporations, members of Congress, the current Presidential Administration including the administrations that preceded it. The news media is being utilized as a political tool of suppression and propaganda by those in power, and propaganda is psychological in nature. Full of half-truths and utter misinformation, it’s an arrogant and very commercial strategy that is implemented because it appeals to emotions, fear being the main one relentless talk of national security, personal and community safety, can trigger childhood insecurities and indoctrinated views of authority. Teresa Stover

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As a result, the press is anything but free 

• The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. Eric Sevareid
• Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely “free:” “news” does not just happen, pictures and ideas do not merely spring from reality into our eyes and minds, truth is not directly available, we do not have unrestrained variety at our disposal. For like all modes of communication, television, radio, and newspapers observe certain rules and conventions to get things across intelligibly, and it is these, often more than the reality being conveyed, that shape the material delivered by the media. Edward W. Said
• Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. J. Liebling

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The media tends to fixate on the negative 

• I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures. Earl Warren
• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: “President Can’t Swim.” Lyndon B. Johnson
• Journalists aren’t supposed to praise things. It’s a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something. P.J. O’Rourke
• There ain’t any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp and have room to spare. Finley Peter Dunne
• Harmony seldom makes a headline. Silas Bent
• We can’t quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder. The Houghton Line, November 1965
• I like to watch the news, because I don’t like people very much and when you watch the news … if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you’re right. Frank Zappa
• The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news… and it’s not entirely the media’s fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news. Peter McWilliams
• I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don’t we? Julian Fellowes
• I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn’t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers. John Twelve Hawks
• The news is not the news. It is the bad news. It is deliberate shock. The more you accept it as the news, the more you believe that “that’s the way it is,” and the more fearful and cynical you will become. If we realized exactly how much vulgar, pessimistic, and manipulative negativity was deliberately packed into every daily newspaper and most television shows and Hollywood movies, we would resist the temptation to flood our brains with their garbage. Most of us are more particular about what we put in our automobile’s gas tank than we are about what we put in our own brain every night. We passively feed ourselves with stories about serial killers and violent crime without any conscious awareness of the choice we’re making. Steve Chandler
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The media tends to fixate on the non-normal 

• Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no ‘normal,’ because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously. Chuck Klosterman

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The media tends to fixate on trivial superficialities 

• If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle. Hillary Clinton
• I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair! Katie Couric
• Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The media tends to fixate on the immediate and short term rather than the big picture 

• Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. Ben Hecht
• All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow’s mackerel. Ira Berkow

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The media is obsessed with novelty 

• The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. Thomas Griffith

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The media fixates on personality rather than character 

• In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. David F. Wells

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The media is obsessed with attractiveness 

• Nobody should be judged on their looks. Beauty is not found on the body but in the soul. The only thing the media has done is change the definition of the word. I mean being attractive may make it easier to catch some one but being kind and loving is how you keep some one. Also with make up its like putting on a mask some masks are creative and fun most others are just used to cover who you really are up. Be yourself. Danyon Guthrie-Lewis

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The media is obsessed with the celebrity culture 

• Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything. Chris Martin

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The media loves to provoke 

• The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. C.E.M.Joad

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The media loves to tear down 

• You can crush a man with journalism. William Randolph Hearst

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To believe blindly what the media says is to be a sheep 

• People are sheep. TV is the shepherd. Jess C. Scott
• A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. Edward R. Murrow
• The American people are free to do exactly what they are told. Ward Churchill

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Be conscious of the media you consume 

• How would your life be different if…You were conscious about the food you ate, the people you surround yourself with, and the media you watch, listen to, or read? Let today be the day…You pay attention to what you feed your mind, your body, and your life. Create a nourishing environment conducive to your growth and well-being today. Steve Maraboli

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Don’t trust the validity all you see and read in the media 

• You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting. Rose Maccaulay
• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

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Spend less time consuming media and more time living life 

• Don’t hate the media, become the media. Jello Biafra
• If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own. Wes “Scoop” Nisker
• If you’re watching too much television and you know it, you might find it useful to ask this one question: “Which side of the glass do I want to live on?” Steve Chandler
• Learn to turn off the distraction and live your life instead. Turn off the television and don’t read gossip magazines. Remove nonessential physical belongings that are robbing you of time and energy that could be better spent living intentionally. Joshua Becker

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Spend less time consuming media and more time connecting and conversing with others 

• Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. Cory Doctorow
• I haven’t had a TV in 10 years, and I really don’t miss it. ‘Cause it’s always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television. Chuck Palahniuk

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Consume less media and more books 

• That ephemeral sheet,… the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman. Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, July 1858
• Books are better than television, the internet, or the computer for educating and maintaining freedom. Books matter because they state ideas and then attempt to thoroughly prove them. They have an advantage precisely because they slow down the process, allowing the reader to internalize, respond, react and transform. The ideas in books matter because time is taken to establish truth, and because the reader must take the time to consider each idea and either accept it or, if he rejects it, to think through sound reasons for doing so. A nation of people who write and read is a nation with the attention span to earn an education and free society if they choose.  Oliver DeMille
• Reading,  Books

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Take a break from the media and television, even if just for a day 

• Take a break from media and television that isn’t delivering a positive message. The input you absorb is a heavy contributor to your health, or lack of it. J. Goldwag
• What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won’t be lost.  Kids will not run crazy in one day.  Lovers won’t stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear.  Just take that one day and think.  Don’t read.  Don’t write.  No television, no radio, no distractions.  Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think.  Call it a healing day.  Maya Angelou

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The media has the potential to be a great power for good 

• I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. Tom Stoppard

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The media spreads information and knowledge 

• The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. James Madison
• There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe … the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here. Mark Twain
• Knowledge

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The media can play a role in holding politicians to account  

• I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. Napoleon
• National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services. Corazon Aquino
• People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don’t mind a microscope, but boy, when they use a proctoscope, that’s going too far. Richard M. Nixon
• For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship’s captain complaining about the sea. Enoch Powell
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We need a strong and independent press … 

• Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness. Potter Stewart
• There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn’t write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn’t any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press. John F. Kennedy

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… and a free press 

• Everybody is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage. Winston Churchill
• I’m all in favour of free expression, provided it’s kept under strict control. Alan Bennett

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The media tends to gloss over the horror of war 

• I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people’s limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game. Amy Goodman
• If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If we had to stand over the mangled corpses of schoolchildren killed in Afghanistan and listen to the wails of their parents, we would not be able to repeat clichés we use to justify war. This is why war is carefully sanitized. This is why we are given war’s perverse and dark thrill but are spared from seeing war’s consequences. The mythic visions of war keep it heroic and entertaining… The wounded, the crippled, and the dead are, in this great charade, swiftly carted offstage. They are war’s refuse. We do not see them. We do not hear them. They are doomed, like wandering spirits, to float around the edges of our consciousness, ignored, even reviled. The message they tell is too painful for us to hear. We prefer to celebrate ourselves and our nation by imbibing the myths of glory, honor, patriotism, and heroism, words that in combat become empty and meaningless. Chris Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class
• All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level. William Bernbach
• All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. Marshall McLuhan
• The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus, they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Thoughts on TV verse newspaper 

• I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the “bare bones” of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring. Dave Barry
• Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently, every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. Art Buchwald, 1969
• The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. David Brinkley

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• Small Town: Where everybody knows what everybody else is doing, and all buy the weekly newspaper to see how much the editor dares to print.
• Newspaper: A publication that condemns gambling and promotes lottery numbers.
• Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first- hand knowledge.
• They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. James G. Watt
• Newspapers: Dead trees with information smeared on them. Horizon
• Journalism — a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. Lord Northcliffe
• Journalism: Buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound. 
• Journalism: Literature in a hurry. 
• If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event… what kind of film would you use?
• If it’s called the USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday? BAM. Busted! Stephen Colbert
• ‘A dog bites a man’—that’s a story; ‘A man bites a dog’—that’s a good story… Jesse Lynch Williams
• Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. Adlai E. Stevenson
• The information business is the opposite of sex. When it’s good, it’s still lousy. Michael Bloomberg
• Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger; you might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last. Maureen Dowd
• Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady, except that a newspaper can always print a retraction. Adlai E. Stevenson
• America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. Alexander Graham Bell
• Press agent: How do I get our leading lady’s name in your newspaper? George S. Kaufman: Shoot her.
• Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. Elbert Hubbard
• Where ignorance is bliss, it’s foolish to borrow your neighbor’s newspaper. Frank ‘Kin’ Hubbard
• Tabloid: A screamlined newspaper.
• I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one. Mark Twain
• Half of the American people have never read a newspaper; and half never voted for president… one hopes it is the same half. Gore Vidal
• It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism. Charles Osgood
• It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. Jerry Seinfeld
• It’s always darkest before dawn… so if you’re going to steal the neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.
• The fury engendered by the misspelling of a name in a (newspaper) column is in direct ratio to the obscurity of the mentionee. Deitz’s Law of Ego
• Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. Helen Rowland
• No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in a Rupert Murdoch newspaper. Mike Royko
• A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. Henry Fielding
• With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying. Bette Davis
• A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. Arthur ‘Bugs’ Baer
• A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. L. Mencken
• My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section. Norm Crosby
• The media (funny quotes)

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