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Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.

None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.

Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers.

The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.

You should have printed what he meant, not what he said.

Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

Journalism is merely history's first draft.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

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.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.