#News Quotes

“Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.”

“Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.”

“If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.”

“Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.”

“Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay, And that bare vowel ay shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. I am not I,if there be such an ay, Or those eyes shut,that make thee answer ay: If he be slain say ay,or if not,no: Brief sounds,determine of my weal or woe.”

“I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.”

“Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.”

“I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.”

“Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.”

“Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.”

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”

“Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.”

“I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.”

“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.”

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”

“The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.'”

“Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.”

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”

“If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”

“Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems.”

“Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.”

“I get the news I need on the weather report And I have nothing to do today but smile”

“The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.”

“A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.”

“Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.”

“News Coverage!! As news expose rather than cover events.”

“If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”

“Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should wash ourselves clean of such news. Of what consequence, though our planet explode, if there is no character involved in the explosion? In health we have not the least curiosity about such events. We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.”

“I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.”

“I always read the papers, the political bits.”

“Read not the Times, read the Eternities.”

“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”

“My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?”

“Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.”

“And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?”

“We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”

“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”

“Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.”

“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”

“The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.”

“You know how on the evening news they always tell you that the stock market is up in active trading, or off in moderate trading, or trading in mixed activity, or whatever. Well, who gives a”

“It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict...It gives us a slightly or very distorted view of what is going on because there are many other parts of the planet where there is no violent conflict, but that is not on the news.”

“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.”

“I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.”

“We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.”