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Film · Western (film) · Western

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

Maxwell Scott

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance · 1962

★ 3.6

Letter

All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat.

Leo Tolstoy

1871

★ 2.1

Essay

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A.J. Liebling

The Wayward Press · 1960

★ 1.9

Film · Crime comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Crime comedy · Comedy

It's disgusting the way they splash this stuff all over the newspapers! What is journalism coming to? You're laying on top of the queen with her legs wrapped around you and they call that news. They can't kick you off the force, Frank! It's just not fair!

Capt. Ed Hocken

Naked Gun · 1988

★ 1.9

Essay · Magazine

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on the people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

Janet Malcolm

1989

★ 1.8

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Forget everything you've seen on television and in the movies. There won't be any last minute, surprise witnesses. No one will break down on the stand with a tearful confession.

Joe Miller

Philadelphia · 1993

★ 1.4

Letter

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them.

Thomas Jefferson

1807

★ 1.3

Autobiography and memoir

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while.

Aleister Crowley

1929

★ 1.1

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