"It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism."
~Charles Osgood

"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."
~Norman Mailer

"Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization."
~George Bernard Shaw, 1931

"With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day."
~Kingman Brewster, Jr.

"In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has."
~Mark Twain

"Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description."
~Anna Quindlen

"The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe."
~George Orwell

"Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done."
~Ernie Kovacs

"If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. "
~Joey Adams

"Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was."
~Art Buchwald, "Adding Insult to Injury," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966

"Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world."
~Astrid Alauda

"I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure."
~E.B. White

"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, New York Times.

"Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?"
~ Chuck Palahniuk