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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of
continuous fiction.
- Aneurin Bevan
News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
- Lord Northcliffe
The medium is the massage.
- Marshall McLuhan
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the
opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the
community.
- Oscar Wilde
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest
in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an
attempted suicide.
- Chris Hubbock, newscaster, shot and killed herself during broadcast, 1970
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as
well as contributing to the need for it.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless
deserves the error that provoked it.
- Alvin Toffler
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available
to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most
terrifying thing is what people do want.
- Clive Barnes
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go
into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of
character.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living
room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
- David Frost
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Mark Twain
The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids
through college.?
- Joan Welsh
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations
officers.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.
- Gene Fowler
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Gandhi
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk in
order to provide articles for people who can't read.
- Frank Zappa
No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in a Rupert Murdoch newspaper.
- George Royko
When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and
at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every
show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until
ultimately, you wind up with a radio.
- David Lee Roth
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like
trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
- Ben Hecht
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Television has raised writing to a new low.
- Samuel Goldwyn
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
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