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Quotes of the Day for 9 December 2004 - Newspapers

It was on this day in 1793 that Noah Webster printed the first edition of the American Minerva at New York City. It was the first daily newspaper for New York, which was still the US capital at the time. We haven't picked on the press lately, so newspapers will be today's theme.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
     - A. J. Liebling, 1904 - 1963

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
     - Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 1900 - 1965

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
     - James Matthew Barrie, 1860 - 1937

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news, it's to get people mad enough to do something about it.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
     - Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.
     - George Harrison, 1943 - 2001

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