As most of you are aware I love using quotes to make an interesting point and they’re usually of a complimentary nature. Todays post will change that. These are quotes from recognizable people who don’t appear to be as happy about things as we all thought they were. I’m providing a selection of quotes concerning the Media and other related matters that might be considered somewhat negative. I live for the negative, how about you?
Newspapers
- “The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements.” Thomas Jefferson
- “In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.” Oscar Wilde
- “Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask you if it’s shining.” Sonny Liston
- “Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.” Edmund Muskie
Publishers & Journalists
- “Jack Anderson is the lowest form of human being to walk the earth. He’s a muckraker who lies, steals, and he’ll go lower than dog shit for a story.” J. Edgar Hoover
- “Dorothy Kilgallen is the only woman I wouldn’t mind my wife catching me with. I don’t know why she took such umbrage at my comments on birth control, she’s such a living argument for it.” Johnny Carson
- “If Hugh Hefner truly thinks that being spread-eagled is so fantastic, how come we haven’t seen his little wahoo with a staple in the middle?” CBS-TV
Television
- “Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.” Peter Ustinov
- “Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.” Eric Sevaride
- “I find television very educating. Every time someone turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book.” Groucho Marx
- “TV is a medium, because it is neither rare nor well done.” Ernie Kovacs
Education
- “Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.” Bob Dylan
- “Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and dead.” Sinclair Lewis
- “The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.” Will Rogers
❤️Anonymous (always the best)❤️
“Tabloids are fast reading for the slow thinkers.”
“The mission of the modern newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
Doctors bury mistakes. Lawyers hang them. But journalists put theirs on the front page.”
“Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults but for having faults different from theirs.”
“You can tell a Harvard man, but you can’t tell him much.”
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And finally a favorite from an anonymous woman.
