#newspapers

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#journalism #mainstream-media #newspapers #journalist

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#art #bars #books #content #forest

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#change #consumption #everything #huge #i

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ↗

— James D. Watson

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The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

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Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy. ↗

— Robert Welch

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I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me. ↗

— Toby Young

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The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them. ↗

— George Harrison

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