“The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.” CharacterDemocracyMinutesFunctionRidiculousNewspapersOppositionForfeitQuacks Book:Diary of H. L. Mencken Source: Diary of H. L. Mencken
“To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.” RealitySeemsOrderNextLostGreaterTelevisionFunctionStructureDetermineNewspapersMagazinesCinemaRetreatImperativesAccordInterpretingSignifying Author:Douglas Crimp
“God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.” KindHas BeensStoriesForeverFunctionNewspapersJournalismMaking UpTriflingFooling Around Author:Tom Wolfe