#newspaper

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

#day #each #give #hell #newspaper

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. ↗

— Karl Rove

#adams #arranged #hire #james #jefferson

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#before #declares #down #even #his

And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#accountant #anything #big #big issue #chicago

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#days #everybody #grow #grow up #had

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#even #good #good writer #i #into

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

#fame #field #i #i think #killed

Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers. ↗

— Jerry Springer

#had #i #newspapers #once #radio

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#always #lady #newspaper #print #virtue

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#editors #men #newspaper #print #separate