I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains
more useful information than the whole of the historical works of
Thucydides.
Richard Cobden
Quotes , Source: in a speech at the Manchester Athenaeum, Dec. 27, 1850
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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove
A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Charity (l. 624)
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How shall I speak thee, or thy power address
Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.
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Like Eden's dead probationary tree,
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Progress of Error (l. 452)
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He comes, the herald of a noisy world,
With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks;
News from all nations lumbering at his back.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Task (bk. IV, l. 5)
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Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people;
for it is they who form a communication between the learned and
the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two
great divisions of the public.
Isaac D'Israeli
Quotes , Source: Literary Character of Men of Genius--Miscellanists
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None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than
three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by
in silence that very large and powerful body which form the
fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.
Henry Fielding
Quotes , Source: Covent Garden Journal
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Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors
Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers.
David Garrick
Quotes , Source: prologue to Sheridan's "School for Scandal"
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The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil,
political, and religious rights of an Englishman.
Junius
Quotes , Source: Dedication to Letters
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You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
Earl Bush
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Oscar Wilde
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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Ben Hecht
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Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa
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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
Marguerite Duras
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Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
Maureen Dowd
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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
Eric Sevareid
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If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
Daniel Moynihan
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