A. J. Liebling

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#everywhere #news #newspapers #people #read

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

— A. J. Liebling

#freedom #guaranteed #only #own #press

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#about #american #blind #englishman #leading

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#function #inform #make #money #press

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#evening #eye #glass #like #man

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#although #away #carry #department #difficulty

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#big city #chicago #city #instead #large

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#better #faster #i #i can #than

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#democracy #grave #i #press #take

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#any #bedding #before #colder #dawn