Newspapers represent everything that is wrong with the world, in a slant that is too accurate, on print that is too high-grade. Bauvard, The Prince of Plungers
A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us. Michael Moore
If you are working fifty hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read ten newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works. Noam Chomsky
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
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. Charles Lamb
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. Wendell Phillips
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress. Wendell Phillips
I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the New York Times to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different. Frank Miller
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. A J Liebling
Working on newspapers, you’re writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humour – women can’t drive, things like that. That’s about the level of a lot of newspaper humour. It becomes a form of laziness. Tom Wolfe
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. Tom Wolfe
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. Norman Mailer
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world. Bill Bryson
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. Spiro T Agnew
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world. Germaine Greer
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. Harry S Truman
I am unable to understand how a man of honour could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. Charles Baudelaire
Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. George Bernard Shaw
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. Erwin Knoll
I keep reading between the lies. Goodman Ace
A newspaper is the lowest thing there is. Richard J Daley
They vomit their gall and call it a newspaper. Friedrich Nietzsche
I’m with you on the free press. It’s the newspapers I can’t stand. Tom Stoppard, Night and Day, 1978
David Shayler in his book – he exposed certain MI6 agents working at the Sunday Telegraph. Richard D Hall, Richplanet: Western Super Mare 23rd June 2011
All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat. Leo Tolstoy
I think it well to remember that, when writing for the newspapers, we are writing for an elderly lady in Hastings who has two cats of which she is passionately fond. Unless our stuff can successfully compete for her interests with those cats it is no good. Willmott Lewis
Once upon a time there was a fake sheikh; he was the star of Britain’s most successful newspaper. Undercover at the News of the World, Channel 4 2012
Normally it was Mazher Mahmood who took the role of fake sheik, a name which struck fear into the hearts of the rich and the famous: David Mellor, Jerry Springer, and the directors of Newcastle United. ibid.
In the summer of 2005 the News of the World’s undercover team turned its attention to England manager Sven Goran Eriksson. ibid.
Why let the facts get in the way of a good story? ibid.
The News of the World was not above making some things up. ibid.
The fake sheikh was about to be exposed. ibid.
Galloway was instantly suspicious. ibid.
Galloway had revealed just how crude the fake sheikh act was. ibid.
Elton Takes David Up The Aisle. The Sun, 2005, re marriage of Elton John & David Furnish
Stick It Up Your Junta. The Sun 1982
Gotcha. The Sun, May 1982, re sinking of Argentine ship Belgrano
Bonkers Bruno Banged Up. The Sun, 2003, re boxer Frank Bruno
If Kinnock Wins Today Will The Last Person To Leave Britain Please Turn Out The Lights. The Sun, general election 1992
It’s The Sun Wot Won It. The Sun, general election 1992
Up Yours Delors. The Sun, front page 1990
George Michael Shunts Trucker In Rear. The Sun, 2009
It’s Paddy Pantsdown. He says, I had five-month fling with my secretary. The Sun
F1 Boss Has Sick Nazi Orgy With Five Hookers. News of the World headline 30th March 2008
The Nation Wins – General Strike Called Off. The Mirror headline 14th May 1926
Maggie Heads For No 10. Daily Mirror headline 4th May 1979
Ulster: Bring Home The Troops. Daily Mirror comment on Northern Island
Is This The Promised Land? Daily Mirror headline on public housing
Divided Britain. Daily Mirror headline on poverty
How Can Britain Approve A War Like This? Sunday Mirror headline re Vietnam
Hurrah For The Blackshirts. Daily Mail headline