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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.