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“These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.”

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Author:Edward Bennett Williams

“What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis.”

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Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

“The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club”

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Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)