The press

Honoré de Balzac (in Monographie de la presse parisienne, 1843) - Pour le journaliste, tout ce qui est probable est vrai.

Ian Betteridge (2009) - Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

Stanisław Jerzy Lec (in Nouvelles pensées échevelées, 1964) - Une fenêtre qui donne sur le monde peut se couvrir avec un journal.

H.L. Mencken - A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Jerry Seinfeld - It's amazing the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Jerry Seinfeld - People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Jerry Seinfeld - Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

Traditional - If it bleeds, it leads.

David Wessel (at 2013 AEA meeting) - We in journalism think that anecdote is the singular of data.

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