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If he had lost Walter Cronkite he had lost Mr. Average Citizen. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1968It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. — Walter Cronkite · 1968Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. — Thomas Carlyle · 1840Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787All the news that's fit to print. — Adolph S. Ochs · 1896The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. — Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1828All 22 quotes →Newspapers6 quotes
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787All the news that's fit to print. — Adolph S. Ochs · 1896All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat. — Leo Tolstoy · 1871Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. — Thomas Jefferson · 1807I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't stand. — Tom Stoppard · 1978It'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 · 1988Media criticism5 quotes
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat. — Leo Tolstoy · 1871Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. — A.J. Liebling · 1960It'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 · 1988Forget 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 · 1993American politics3 quotes
If he had lost Walter Cronkite he had lost Mr. Average Citizen. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1968It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. — Walter Cronkite · 1968The media's the opposition party. — Steve Bannon · 2017Freedom of the press3 quotes
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. — Joseph Pulitzer · 1904I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't stand. — Tom Stoppard · 1978Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. — A.J. Liebling · 1960Journalism3 quotes
Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. — Thomas Carlyle · 1840The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. — Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1828This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962Vietnam War3 quotes
If he had lost Walter Cronkite he had lost Mr. Average Citizen. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1968It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. — Walter Cronkite · 1968Television 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 · 1975American West1 quote
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962Color1 quote
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. — Alex · 1971Communication1 quote
The medium is the message. — Marshall McLuhan · 1964Curation1 quote
All the news that's fit to print. — Adolph S. Ochs · 1896Politics1 quote
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. — A.J. Liebling · 1960Power1 quote
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. — A.J. Liebling · 1960Screens1 quote
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. — Alex · 1971Suppression of speech1 quote
The power of the press is very great, but not so great as the power of suppress. — Alfred Harmsworth · 1918Truth1 quote
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962Truth vs. fiction1 quote
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. — Maxwell Scott · 1962