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“It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.”
Umberto Eco“An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper.”
Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
Thomas Jefferson“Now listen,' said George angrily, 'I’ve been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you what’s going on.''Nonsense. If there’s one place in the world where nobody knows what’s going on, it’s a newspaper office.”
Jack Iams, The French Touch“But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.”
Ben Bradlee, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures“Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.”
Karl Barth“The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic“Having learned to write news, I now distrust newspapers as a source of information, and I am often surprised by historians who take them as primary source for knowing what really happened. I think newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events themselves.”
Robert Darnton, The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future“It's from the newspapers that people I know - relatives and co-workers - have got the idea that crosswords are a prophylactic against Alzheimer's. Newspapers are of course also the place where crosswords (and now sudokus) are most readily available, so the association is presumably good for circulation.”
Alan Connor, Two Girls, One on Each Knee (7): The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword