Truer Words
Now that we're all starting to see the collapse of the house of cards that was the Plame investigation, I think these quotes about journalists and newspapers are due for a revisit:
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." --Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news." --A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists." --Norman Mailer (1923 - )
"Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits." -- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
"USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population." -- David Letterman (1947 - )
"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 (1893 - 1964)