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.

You can know a lot and still be stupid.

A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

It is still gossip even if everything that is said is true.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

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.

What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.