#newspaper

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. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

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As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

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The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not. ↗

— Herbert Bayard Swope

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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress. ↗

— C. S. Forester

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The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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