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Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a
managed or well-conducted one.
Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a
managed or well-conducted one.
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by read more
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great read more
Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the New York Herald Tribune, history itself is denied a devoted witness.
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, read more
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
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in read more
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization
Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand read more
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
