Newspaper publishers profit greatly from the widespread belief that reading newspapers gives others the impression that one is smart or at least mature.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Some facts are each useful to only one person.

You can know a lot and still be stupid.

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

The most important thing that most people get from the news is the prediction of the following day’s weather, which most people are usually able to predict correctly by themselves.

Newspapers always tell us the same things. The only things they change are the dates and the photographs and the names of the scenes, the victims, and the perpetrators.

Illiterate people should only be charged for the photographs; when buying a newspaper.