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Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.
When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made extraordinary margins. It's now a very good business with appropriate margins.
When I was counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, about 25% of the important leads which our committee developed came from newspapers. This increased my respect for those courageous newspapers which assisted us. It also caused me to look with wonderment at some of the newspapers that did not.
For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.
When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.
It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.
A good newspaper is never good enough, but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.
Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants ... or (again) parties.
Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,
I personally like the idea of newspapers. It's a good format. You can read it in whatever order you want. You can glance at it. There is something about a single screen and scrolling through pages that just doesn't have the same appeal.
I read the newspaper.
A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.
Newspapers take peoples' tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.
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I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those.
I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.
The 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.
A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone.
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.
Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of attention only for as long as they remained fresh, which was not very long at all. They
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then ... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.
American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.
A daily newspaper is destined to become like a weekly magazine. We'll be talking about what might happen tomorrow, with feature articles, investigative supplements, unexpected predictions ...
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.
A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does.
It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.
How can people trust social media over newspapers today?
Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.
To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.
I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn't normally read. And more often than not, the articles that you don't expect to care about are the ones that grab you.
I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.
At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been better explained. A valuable, important book for those of us who watch, read, or listen to the news.
I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.
I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.
I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.
Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do the best job providing a particular service.
There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.
I read the newspaper online. Mostly 'The New York Times.' I'll still buy papers if I'm getting on an airplane or the tour bus, though. I like physical things.
A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.
A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are
but with the way they ought to be.
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Newspapers, I said. I unrolled the Quindle Diary so
I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.
News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.
In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
I used to be a print reporter.
Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.
Newspapers ... serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.
Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.
I'm the son of a newsman, I grew up around news, so I can understand the issue, which is that papers are losing subscribers and they're getting less and less outlets ... it's a tricky thing. You're going to have to sell papers. The problem is, there's so little reporting anymore.
The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness ...
I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.
There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.
The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..
The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.
A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.
A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.
I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'
Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.'
I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.
In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.
A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters.
Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.
People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.
The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions.
Magazine articles are the new books.
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.
A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.
To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.
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.
My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.
I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.
The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines.
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?
It's the 'National Enquirer' for the ad people
I'm naturally curious, and I read four newspapers a day.
A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.
I read the New York Times, and if I'm in a different city, I'll skim that paper.
I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?