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"The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country." -- Learned Hand, Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942 "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." -- W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand, 1962 "Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity." -- Russell Baker, The Good Times, 1989 "Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another." -- G. K. Chesterton, "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908 "News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day." -- Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961 "No news at 4:30 a.m. is good." -- Lady Bird Johnson, A White House Diary, 1970 "The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper." -- Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, 1962 "The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money." -- A. J. Liebling, The Press, 1961 "It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better." -- Marya Mannes, "A Word to the Wizards" "Surely the glory of journalism is its transience." -- Malcolm Muggeridge, The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966 "A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom — it's gone." -- Edward R. Murrow, News Summaries, December 31, 1955 "The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform." -- George Steiner, Real Presences, 1989 "We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat." -- Arthur Hays Sulzberger, "Time", On Journalists, May 8, 1950 "To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea." -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 "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, Mr. Citizen, 1960 "By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, [journalism] keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." -- Oscar Wilde "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." -- Thomas Jefferson "Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everyone and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." -- Clive Barnes, in New York Times "Whoever controls the media -- the images -- controls the culture." -- Allen Ginsberg "Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house." -- Alfred Hitchcock "Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath." -- Dave Barry