Media and News 

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"When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too." 

Kenneth Rexroth 

"A lightweight, by definition, is a man who cannot assert his authority over the national press, cannot manipulate reporters, cannot finesse questions, prevent leaks or command a professional public relations operation."

Unknown 

"The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off." 

Bob Hope 

"The media are only as liberal as the conservative businesses that own them" 

Unknown

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses." 

Malcolm X 

"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation" 

Voltaire 

"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture." 

Allen Ginsberg 

“News is people. It is people talking and people doing”

Harold Evans 

“News is whatever a good editor chooses to print” 

Arthur McEwan 

“The British Press is a whore – but occasionally we must get into bed with it.” 

Aneurin Bevan MP

“You should always believe all you read in the newspapers as this makes them so much more interesting”

Dame Rose Macauley 

"Any journalist may be replaced by any other journalist at any time".

Lord Beaverbrook

News is: “fires, explosions, floods…railway accidents, destructive storms, earthquakes, shipwrecks…accidents…street riots…strikes…the suicide of persons of not, social or political, and murders of a sensational or atrocious character.” 

Reuters 1883 

"No news is good news." 

Unknown 

"No one reads the papers for the adverts."

Me

"Today’s news is tomorrow’s chips." 

Unknown 

"Today’s news is tomorrow’s toilet paper." 

Unknown

"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. "

Daphne du Maurier

"A journalist shall at all times defend the principle of freedom of the press...He/she shall strive to eliminate distortion, news suppression and censorship."

National Union of Journalists code of conduct

"News is what somebody, somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising."

Lord Northcliffe