- Quotes by Henry Fielding
‘A newspaper, which consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not…may, likewise, be compared to a stagecoach, which performs constantly the same course, empty as well as full’. - Quotes by Harold Evans
“A headline is not an act of journalism, it is an act of marketing”. - Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
“[Television] is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome”. - Quotes by Norman Douglas
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements”. - Quotes by Charles Anderson Dana
”When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news”. - Quotes by Quentin Crisp
“If any reader of this book is in the grip of some habit of which he is deeply ashamed, I advise him not to give way to it in secret but to do it on television. Noone will pass him by with averted gaze on the other side of the street. People will cross the road at the risk of losing their own lives in order to say. “We saw you on the telly.”
- Quotes by Sir Noel Coward
“Television is for appearing on, not looking at”. - Quotes by Alan Coren
“Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we should have people standing in the corners of our rooms”. - Quotes by Cyrill Connolly
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once”. - Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“And the faith of the poor is faint and partial, And the pride of the rich is all for sale, And the chosen heralds of England’s Marshal, And the sandwich -men of the Daily Mail”. - Quotes by
“[On press interest in his court appearance for assault] When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea”.
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