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The German journalists still ring me and ask me to come back because without me their newspapers are empty - but I'm happy for that.
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me.
We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.
People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; they're just kind of reinventing themselves.'
I have always had a long term view on records as I want them to be books and not magazines and newspapers that you discard very quickly.
When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.
There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.
If I read the newspaper I come out dirtier than I went in. If I read my Bible, I come out cleaner than I went in, and I like being clean!
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane.
The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.
I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.
It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.
Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don't have any restrictions.
You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.
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.
I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.
You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.
Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.
Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.
Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
I come from a big family of hairdressers; they didn't read newspapers. I would say, 'I'm off to Afghanistan...' and they would say, 'Have fun!'
There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.
What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.
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.
I just wanted to say that there is so much goodness in the world. We keep looking at the terrible and diabolical things when we open newspapers.
That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to go.
There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.
The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.
If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.
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.
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.
Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion.
Across the years, in spite of everything I knew, my passion endured. Newspapers and magazines paid me to cover fights when I'd have paid my own way.
Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.
I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.