James Hobart Quotes

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I'm naturally curious, and I read four newspapers a day.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

Every newspaper lives by appealing to a particular public. It can only go ahead of its times if it carries its public with it. Success in journalism depends on understanding the public.

Modern young news consumers want not only to know what happened but why it happened.

The American might be defined as a newspaper-reading animal.

I wake up angry every morning and start reading [the newspapers]. Then I'm furious.

I've always read the papers but didn't feel I knew enough in the past. But doing the research and looking at newspapers and online websites gives you a 360-degree view of the news.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

I read the 'New York Times', I read 'The Nation', I read 'Newsweek', I read 'Time Magazine', I read 'Politico', I read 'Mediaite'. This is what I do! I read every day, I have interests, I'm like everybody out there who's watching, who's out there watching, you know?

The consumption of news is up, but the way people are receiving the news has changed

It’s our responsibility to read the newspapers and then say it is our opinion.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

I read the newspapers avidly; it is my one form of continuous fiction.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

News is the first rough draft of history.

[Commenting on Shays' Rebellion:] The way to prevent these regular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro' the channel of the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people.

Be it true or false, so it be news.

A labouring man ... read and study halfe his time, and then be at a loss to know what is true and what not. Thus the few have almost ruined the Libberty of the press.

How do you know the news is reliable if you didn’t gather it yourself?

Newspapers always excite curiosity.