News Quotes

To a philosopher all as is it is called, is gossip

It started off as fun - you know, it wasn't against the law, so why wouldn't you?

News International has decided to approach some civil litigants with an unreserved apology and an admission of liability in cases meeting specific criteria ... past behaviour at the News of the World in relation to voicemail interception is a matter of genuine regret. It is now apparent that our previous inquiries failed to uncover important evidence and we acknowledge our actions then were not sufficiently robust.

Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!

News Corp. is assessing a number of possibilities including a sale, a merger and a spinout [sic]. The process has just started...

Over the past few nights prisoners have been reluctant to be breathalysed by staff. The staff have been chasing them round the blocks trying to breathalyse them, which is sort of reminiscent of the end scene from Benny Hill to me.

The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned.

Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Chi! Chi! Chi! Le! Le! Le! Los mineros de Chile!

God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.

Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?

When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.

The genuine role of the media, the role it must adopt if society is to function in a practically and morally coherent way, is to reveal power, to pester power, to hound it with questions. Because power cannot be trusted.

The underground press was convinced that I was a junkie, an acid head. ... But I don't do drugs. I don't like being f*cked up. I've got enough bizarre chemicals floating around in my head. I'm just naturally like this.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue
is to a lady; but a newspaper can always
print a retraction.

If you have to eat a turd, do not nibble

A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions mostly fools.

Every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay every thing open.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.

Tweets are the gold standard of scoops. A growing number of newspapers are turning their entire mastheads over to Twitter.