“There were three
Estates in Parliament;
but in the reporters gallery yonder,
there sat a fourth Estate ( the press )
more important than them all.”
Edmund Burke (1700s)
“I do not take
a single newspaper,
nor read one a month,
and I feel myself
infinitely the happier.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The first essence
of journalism is to know
what you want to know;
the second is to find out
who will tell you.”
John Gunther
“Freedom of the press
is guaranteed only
to those who own one.”
A. J Liebling
“An editor – a person employed
on a newspaper, whose business
it is to separate the wheat
from the chaff, and to see that
the chaff is printed.”
Elbert Hubbard
“If some
great catastrophe
is not announced
every morning,
we feel a certain void. "
Paul Valery
“Everything you read
in the newspapers
is absolutely true,
except for that rare story
of which you happen to have
first-hand knowledge.”
Erwin Knoll
"The whole problem
with the world is that
fools and fanatics
are always so certain
of themselves,
and wiser people
so full of doubts.”
Bertrand Russell
“A lie can be half-way
round the world
before the truth
has got its boots on.”
James Callaghan
“All of us are watchers
– of television, of time clocks,
of traffic on the freeway
– but few are observers.
Everyone is looking,
not many are seeing.”
Peter Leschak