Went looking through The Quote Garden a while back and found these apt observations, which I hereby “share with you,” as people say these days:
* The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but the newspapers.
— Thomas Jefferson
* Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
— G.K. Chesterton
* We can’t quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.
— The Houghton Line, November 1965
* News is history shot on the wing.
Gene Fowler, Skyline
* It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.
— Charles Osgood
* Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.
— Horizon, “Electronic Frontier”
* I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures.
— Earl Warren [who hadn’t been reading about the Cubs at least since 1945], quoted in Sports Illustrated, 22 July 1968
Blithe Spirit 