Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. — Elbert Hubbard
Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper. — Arthur Christiansen
What editors are obliged to appear to say that — Naomi Wolf
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. — William Tecumseh Sherman
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. — Alexander Graham Bell
These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie. — Edward Bennett Williams
A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment. — Richard Cobden
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. — Arthur Baer
News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads. — William Randolph Hearst
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. — Spiro T. Agnew
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. — Napoleon
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. — James G. Watt
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history. — Maureen Dowd
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. — Arthur Miller
Short Newspaper Editors Quotes
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. — T. S. Eliot
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. — George Orwell
Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining. — Sonny Liston
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. — A. J. Liebling
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. — Russell Lynes
The press is our chief ideological weapon. — Nikita Khrushchev
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. — Jessica Savitch
Newspaper Editors Image Quotes
Magazine Editors Quotes
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. — Sarah Palin
How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good. — Mark Twain
Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.
Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb) — Richard Dawkins
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. — Richard Branson
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen. — Robert E. Howard
I did not go to fashion school. I arrived in New York in 1986 from Kansas City and was working as accessories editor for Mademoiselle Magazine. While working at Mademoiselle I noticed that the market lacked stylish and sensible handbags, so I decided to create my own. — Kate Spade
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper. — Jeffery Deaver
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine. — Judith Krantz
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years. — Jane Haddam
While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Newspapers Journalism Quotes
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. — Malcolm X
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read. — Jimmy Breslin
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. — Charles A. Dana
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw
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
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. — Oscar Wilde
I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. — Molly Ivins
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Newspaper Reporters Quotes
If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you. — Julius Streicher
That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only. — Thomas Carlyle
Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter. — Joe Paterno
The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done. — Edward R. Murrow
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer. — Ben Bagdikian
Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is. — Ben Bradlee
A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear. — Jackie Kennedy
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. — Tony Hillerman
Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end? — Yao Ming
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. — Michael D. Higgins
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. — Adlai E. Stevenson
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay! — Jack Germond
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. — Kate Chopin
I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing. — Tina Fey
The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down. — Philip K. Dick
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one. — Sayings
In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation. — Rebekah Brooks
As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed by the frequency with which religion causes people to kill each other. It is a nearly universal pattern, undercutting the common assumption that religion makes people kind and tolerant. — James A. Haught
Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue. — Peter Farb
life becomes satire in real time, what good is the premiere satire magazine? It might as well just be the newspaper. You could pick up The Wall Street Journal and be like, "Oh, what a funny Onion headline!" And then the editor of The Onion is like, "Huh. I guess you won't be needing me anymore." — Moshe Kasher
The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers. — Thomas Carlyle
I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism. — Jenna Bush
I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper. — Carol Burnett
In the first night of the Arvon Foundation course, Elspeth Barker said something about the newspaper along the lines of - and I'm paraphrasing - "I do these pieces for them and it's amazing, because I don't type it out, I just fax it as it is, and the literary editor has a machine that can transform my handwriting into typed text." At which point I put my hand up and said, "Actually, I'm that machine." — Maggie O'Farrell
At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year after year, decade after decade. I remember I very badly wanted to write a newspaper column when I was only 21 years old, and I went to my editor and told him that, and he said, "You're a really good writer, but you haven't lived long enough to be qualified to live out loud." — Anna Quindlen
In my second year of Harvard Divinity School, where I was studying to be a minister like my father, I met a guy named Robert Cox, who had been the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald during the Dirty War in Argentina. Bob used to print the names of those who had been disappeared the day before, above the fold in his newspaper. It was a kind of an awakening to me to see what great journalism can and should do. — Chris Hedges
One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites. — Astra Taylor
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article. — Jon Weisman
The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms. — Mark Twain
Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow was strictly English, and he was editor of the newspaper there. He shook my hand after I got off the train and said, "Hello, Satchmo." So right away my trombone player said, "Mmm, the man thinks you have mo' mouth than Satchel Mouth." So I was stuck with it, and it turned out all right. — Louis Armstrong
That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can be a collapse of quality. You may not have liked the decisions made by publishers in the past, you may not have liked the decisions made by magazine editors or newspaper editors in the past. At least there was some quality control — William Monahan
I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500 letters a day, and part of my job as editor was to edit them. And I thought that was one of the best things in the newspaper, and it was instituted by an editor known as Big Tom, who said 'this is the voice of the people.' And he was quite right. — Harold Evans
This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British paratroopers. We interviewed 500 people for our report, and not one of them could give us a total picture of what was happening. It was like the Rashomon effect multiplied a million times. For a website or even a newspaper to be a collector of information flow is not the highest form of journalism. — Harold Evans
I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school newspaper. So I knew that I was a good writer and I wanted to somehow capitalize and sort of utilize a talent that I thought I had. — Halle Berry
For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided. — Warren E. Burger
Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper. — Robert E. Lee
I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address. — Rebecca
I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it. — Ed Asner
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
[Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.] — Jean De La Fontaine
If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees. — Michael Wilbon
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil. — Jean De La Fontaine
I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page. — Buzz Bissinger
I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine. — Zoe Lister-Jones
Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation. — David Puttnam
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short. — Thomas Jefferson
One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress. — Marcel Proust
The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print. — Mark Twain
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