535 Quotes About News

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

Vergeet nepnieuws. Echt nieuws is minstens zo misleidend.

Newspapers are not made any longer by news or journalism. They are made by sheer weight of money expressed in free gift schemes. They serve not the interests of the many, but the vested interests of the few.

The Press will not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the people, but a tyranny over their minds and souls. Much humbug is talked on this subject. What is press freedom? In practice it means the right of a dew millionaires to corner newspaper shares on the stock exchange and to voice their own opinions and interests, irrespective of the truth or of the national interest.

But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something.

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

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.