How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers!

The First Duty of a newspaper is to be Accurate. If it be Accurate, it follows that it is Fair.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a [news] story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and unveracity.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

Journalism-an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

At one time he was employed on one of the Yiddish dailies, but lost his job during a political campaign, when he refused to write two editorials advocating the election of two opposing candidates, both to appear in the same issue of the newspaper.

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, How dull is the world today! Nowadays he says, What a dull newspaper!

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers?

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.