![]() |
| If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|||||||
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#8
|
|||
|
|||
|
A famous newspaperman on newspapers:
"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." - Mark Twain "It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the stupid people - who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations - do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper, and there is where the harm lies." - Mark Twain in his "License of the Press" speech. "The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it." - Mark Twain "I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy." - Mark Twain speech, Feb. 1873 "Our papers have one peculiarity - it is American - their irreverence ... They are irreverent toward pretty much everything, but where they laugh one good king to death, they laugh a thousand cruel and infamous shams and superstitions into the grave, and the account is squared. Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense." - Mark Twain's Notebook "Unassailable certainty is the thing that gives a newspaper the firmest and most valuable reputation." - Mark Twain's "Roughing It" "The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot's dread of a newspaper that laughs." - "The American Press," first printed in Mark Twain: Press Critic, University of California, 2003. And the source for all those quotes (and more) came from: http://www.twainquotes.com/Newspaper.html |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| 12 April 1952 Spokane "Spokesman's Review" article | Don Pyeatt | Aviation Photos | 1 | June 2nd 07 03:56 PM |
| FWD: Article "Logan to get radar to detect ships - Monitoring could improve flow of air traffic" | Jon | Piloting | 0 | April 18th 07 10:22 PM |
| FWD: Article "Logan to get radar to detect ships - Monitoring could improve flow of air traffic" | Jon | Instrument Flight Rules | 0 | April 18th 07 10:22 PM |
| MSNBC / NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE: 9/11 "Hijackers" Trained in SECURE U.S. MILITARY INSTALLATIONS | Wake Up! | Piloting | 8 | March 17th 06 08:47 PM |
| Time Magazine article B-1B | Jim Baker | Military Aviation | 1 | July 31st 03 11:12 AM |