“Running a liberal paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of an awl to a wild cat.” Quote by Oscar Ameringer
“A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.” WellsDiesLiteratureMediaHungerJournalistPrizeNobelNobel Prize Author:Tom Bethell
“If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.” IfsKnowsYearsPersonsWould BeLastsAmericaNamesMediaReaderJohn Kennedy Author:Joseph Sobran
“Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.” IfsArtistDiesSimpleMediaTelevisionBillsRadioSavedScalesDevicesOld LadyMalnutritionFederationTelevision And Radio Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.” WarAmericaTurnsAttentionMediaMonthsNewsPaidPressesUglyCommunistCoverageDipCentral AmericaEl SalvadorUgly Truth Author:Fred Barnes
“The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.” StatesMediaNew YorkOfficialsDepartmentNew York TimesLeaks Author:Mort Sahl
“I got my job through the New York Times. [Written underneath:] So did Castro.” JobsWrittenMediaNew YorkNew York TimesCastro Author:Robert Reisner
“The more boring a newspaper is, the more it is respected. The most respected newspaper in the United States is The New York Times, which has thousands of reporters constantly producing enormous front-page stories about bauxite...The [New York] Post would write about bauxite only if famous celebrites were arrested for snorting it in an exclusive Manhattan nightclub.” IfsWritingStatesStoriesUnitedUnited StatesMediaFrontsNew YorkPagesBoringNewspapersEnormousPostsReportersExclusiveArrestedManhattanNew York TimesNightclubs Author:Dave Barry
“One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.” MediaNew YorkMagazinesJournalismSundayBoresNew York TimesCardinalsChoresPenanceCardinal Rules Author:Martin Nolan
“Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.” MediaNewspapersGarbagePrinting Author:Spiro T. Agnew
“Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.” FeelingsNamesMediaJournalistResorts Author:Emmett Tyrrell