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Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.
Douglas Adams

Hundreds of people who've never written before send in Dr. Who scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
Douglas Adams

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
Douglas Adams

People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of Hitchhiker's, and I thought, No, no. I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
Douglas Adams

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry Adams

He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young, and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
George Ade

Television - a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
Fred Allen

Television is a new medium, and I have discovered why it's called a new medium - because nothing is well done.
Fred Allen

The duty of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Mencken's Dictionary of Quotations
Anonymous

The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough.
Victoria Arlen

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Never answer an anonymous letter.
Yogi Berra

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Aneurin Bevan

When a dog bites a man, that isn't news. It often happens. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
John B. Bogart

The funny thing is better TV shows don't cost that much more than lousy TV shows.
Warren Buffett

The market will pay better to entertain than educate.
Warren Buffett

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Journalism largely consists in saying Lord Jones Dead to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
G. K. Chesterton

A Harvard professor told me that if there was no Gallup poll there'd be no Bill Clinton.
Financial Times
Jim Clifton

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
Cyril Connolly

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we should have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
Alan Coren

Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not for looking at.
Noël Coward

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A social media fast is a fast, I suppose like any other. In this case, you're simply giving up whether it be a device or a particular type of social media site. And I do this at least once weekly.
Tim Ferriss

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When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
Michael D. Higgins

Being in jail is by far the hardest thing I have ever done. During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience ... I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world.
Paris Hilton

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The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on earth. Stand back and you get the drift.
Bernard Ingham

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson

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Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.
Dalai Lama

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I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.
At her first press briefing, May 1, 2020.
Kayleigh McEnany

The science should not stand in the way of this.
Referring to school reopenings in a news briefing, July 16, 2020.
Kayleigh McEnany

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the message.
Marshall McLuhan

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamppost.
H. L. Mencken

Whenever I see a newspaper, I think of the poor trees. As trees they provide beauty, shade and shelter. But, as paper, all they provide is rubbish.
Yehudi Menuhin

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
Jim Morrison

I don't give a damn what the media critics say. It's what your readers say. If you haven't got any readers, you're only talking to yourself.
Rupert Murdoch

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The press is the enemy.
Richard Nixon

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You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.
P. J. O'Rourke

On average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.
David Ogilvy

There is one category of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.
David Ogilvy

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Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
Shimon Peres

For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea.
Enoch Powell

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Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai Stevenson

Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
Hannen Swaffer

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We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher

We shall not be diverted from our course. To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catch-phrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say. You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher

The only qualities essential for real success in journalism are ratlike cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability.
Nicholas Tomalin

I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it, but I couldn't find honest employment.
Mark Twain

It is a free press ... There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
Mark Twain

You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir! I have been through it from Alpha to Omega, and I tell you the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
Mark Twain

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News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
Evelyn Waugh

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