The news is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
The only thing worse than bad news is no news at all.
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
If you don't get newspapers straight, you'll believe half the world is under water and half is on fire.
The news is not just a reporting of facts but a framing of facts.
News is something someone wants suppressed. Everything else is just advertising.
The news is the first rough draft of history.