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Ø "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, On the Cryptic and the Elliptic, 1908

Ø "You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on." - Harry S Truman, Mr. Citizen, 1960

Ø "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx

Ø "Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk." - Fran Lebowitz

Ø "Wow! They've got the internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

Ø "The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper." - Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, 1962

Ø "The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money." - A. J. Liebling, The Press, 1961

Ø "By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." - Oscar Wilde

Ø "The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country." - Learned Hand, Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942

Ø "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." - Napoleon, Maxims

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