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    Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge

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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

by A. J. Liebling Found in: Newspapers Quotes,
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Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a
managed or well-conducted one.

Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a
managed or well-conducted one.

by Unknown Found in: Newspapers Quotes,
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Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great read more

Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the New York Herald Tribune, history itself is denied a devoted witness.

by Richard Kluger Found in: Newspapers Quotes,
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The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by read more

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

by I. F. Stone Found in: Newspapers Quotes,
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Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

by Spiro T. Agnew Found in: Newspapers Quotes,
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, read more

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Newspapers Quotes,
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in read more

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress

by Wendell Phillips Found in: Newspapers Quotes,
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