News: good & bad
"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" Thomas Jefferson
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. Mark Twain
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. Charles Anderson Dana
"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising." Lord Northcliffe
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell. Michael Jackson
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands."Oscar Wilde
"Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules" - Douglas Adams
"Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost." Napoleon Bonaparte
"For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news." Gloria Borger
"For news of the heart, ask the face"
"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation" Voltaire
"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."
A. J. Liebling
"False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news" Adrienne Rich
"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." Jerry Seinfeld
"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust." Charles Baudelaire
"The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments." Anne Sullivan
"Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction." Adlai E. Stevenson
"If I want to read fiction, I'll buy a newspaper."
"Journalism is organized gossip." Edward Eggleston
"Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space" Rebecca West
"Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism" Graham Greene