Newt Gingrich Quotes

The good news does not make the front pages. The bad news does make the front pages.

The sports pages record man’s accomplishments. The front pages record his failures.

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.

If you say a more outrageous thing than everyone else that day, you're going to get the headlines.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

No good news, which means the same as bad news.

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

The front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times are very important in shaping what other people think. They're like writing a memo to the White House.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

Every organization has men and women who will be sure that the news gets out when it is good news. The problem is with the bad news. That is the challenge of democracy

[Newspaper] editors print everything they possibly can in large capital letters.

Evil news rides post, while good news baits.

I'd have to set my hair on fire to get on the news.

Journalists follow authority as sharks follow a liner, dining on the scraps that are thrown overboard.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

It’s hard to absorb the horrors of the world on a daily basis.

The end of bad news is always good news.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper to have thumbsuckers and pundits on television than it is to have reporters and news bureaus around the world.

Evil news fly faster still than good.

Nothing is so tantalizing to journalists as some answer they can't get. If you want to appeal to political journalists,…you hide something from us …

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else..

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

Newspapers are inherently inefficient and anger a lot of people.

It seems a waste, to me, for the sake of getting more colorful news, to send these men, who are not in any way concerned with the war [Spanish Civil War] which is going on and the principles at stake, into such positions of danger. Three men, two Americans and an Englishman, have died, and with apparent pride a formal announcement is made to the effect that we should realize what dangers correspondents go through to give us the news. To be sure, these men, not only go willingly, but often are anxious for the assignment. Personally, I would prefer to have those three men alive and a little less accurate and colorful news, and I am quite sure the majority of the people in the United States feel the same way. If men must die, let it be for their own convictions, not because they are sent out so we may read or see something more startling in our newspapers and newsreels.