183 Quotes About Newspapers

They put it like that?' said Glenda, wide-eyed.'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,' said Ponder. 'I seriously think they think that it is their job to calm people down by first of all explaining why they should be overexcited and very worried.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

And by the way, my dear,' he said, 'you might just mention to Mrs. Sutton that if she must read the morning paper before I come down, I should be obliged if she would fold it neatly afterwards.' 'What an old fuss-box you are, darling,' said his wife. Mr. Mummery sighed. He could not explain that it was somehow important that the morning paper should come to him fresh and prim, like a virgin.Women did not feel these things. ("Suspicion")

The Press is the living jury of the Nation." James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald in 1841

People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.

It is a rule of life in the power elite that there is no such thing as a purely social act.

The printing press has published more ghosts and spirits than god has.

[B]ut newspapers nowadays had too many pages, no one could proof everything before it went to press, and even the major newspapers were now writing “Simone de Beauvoire,” or “Beaudelaire,” or “Roosvelt,” and the proofreader was becoming as outmoded as the Gutenberg press.

Newspapers are always the same. You just have to read one every ten years.