“Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch owner who witnessed this to tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper and not the White House press corps at large, or notify the public in a national way.” MenWayFeelsStatesHousePresidentWhiteUnitedUnited StatesClearPressesVicesNewspapersLocalsAppropriateOwnersWhite HouseVice PresidentCorpusNotify Author:David Gregory
“Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.” SaidStatesUnitedUnited StatesPressesNewspapersBest ThingsDisagreementFree Press Author:Jim Bishop
“What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.” IfsMenGivingFeelsStatesHappensTodayAmericaValuesIndividualUnited StatesDemocracyDangerCitizensImportanceResponsibleMajorityActiveNewspapersGravesCeaseAdvertisingAgentsRepublicPublicityFascistsAmerica Today Author:May Sarton
“Throughout all ranks of society, from the successful merchant, which is the highest, to the domestic serving man, which is the lowest, they are all too actively employed to read, except at such broken moments as may suffice for a peep at a newspaper. It is for this reason, I presume, that every American newspaper is more or less a magazine.” MenMayReasonMomentsReadingUnited StatesSuccessfulBrokenHighestNewspapersMagazinesServingLowestEmployedMerchants Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans
“To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.” ThinkingShouldUnited StatesNewspapersDistinctionAdmirationFlatteringAmerican Writer Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans
“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
“I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.” ThinkingStatesLostUnitedUnited StatesInternetDuesNewspapersJournalismPregnancyCirculationPlagiarism Author:Will McDonough
“Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'” KnowsWorldStatesUnitedOpinionUnited StatesStreetsWallIntegrityNewspapersJournalMuslim WorldWall Street Journal Author:Noam Chomsky