"Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat -- no matter who killed the meat for him."

(Ernest Hemingway)

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

(Norman Mailer)

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."

(Frank Zappa)

(1940-1993)

"Bad manners make a journalist."

(Oscar Wilde)

(1854-1900, Irish poet)

"We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough."

(Henry David Thoreau)

"A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself."

(Arthur Miller)

"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."

(Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."

(George Orwell)

"I think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals - some serve the function of business networking, some are media portals. What we're trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share information."

(Mark Zuckerberg)

"The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media."

(Eric Schmidt)

 

"We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces."

(Ted Turner)

“Your brand is not what you say it is, it is what Google says it is.”

(Chris Anderson)

“Are my customers loyal ? Absolutely! 100%. Right till the moment someone offers a better service.”

(Jeff Bezos)

"Real Time is the new Prime Time"

(Queen Rania)

"I'm a catalyst for change … You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place."

(Rupert Murdoch)

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."

(Gandhi)

"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)

"I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets."

(Napoleon)

"You can crush a man with journalism."

(William Randolph Hearst)

"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

(Matthew Arnold)

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

(Thomas Jefferson)

"They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers."

(James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982)

"The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring."

(Warren Chappell)

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."

(Ben Hecht)

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

(Lyndon B. Johnson)

"I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures."

(Earl Warren, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 22 July 1968)

"We have computers now that let us do 400 million shares a day or whatever the equivalent number of transactions in the bond business is, compared to the old days. But it's the same process. We still have salesmen selling to people."

(Michael Bloomberg)

"I think that all money can do is to get your message out. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you have to use mass media to communicate with the people, and it just costs an awful lot of money."

(Michael Bloomberg)

"Both U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have used Facebook as a way to organize their supporters. From the protests against the Colombian FARC, a 40-year old terrorist organization, to fighting oppressive, fringe groups in India, people use Facebook as a platform to build connections and organize action."

(Mark Zuckerberg)

“All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.”

(William Bernbach)
(American advertising creative director, who lived from 1911 till 1982, one of the three founders of advertising agency DDB -Doyle, Dane, Bernbach)

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”

(Malcolm X)