Quotes About Local Newspapers

#1. Local newspapers are directories of horror - unbelievably vile people doing unbelievably vile things to each other.

Michael Bracewell

#2. Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

Tabitha Soren

#3. I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.

Jim Lehrer

#4. People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.

George Miller

#5. Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.

Dinesh D'Souza

#6. Simply calling the Great Fire an accident did not satisfy some people, most notably the local newspapers. They demanded a culprit--

Jim Murphy

#7. Without local newspapers there's no one to tell you when somebody's been fined for having rats in their kitchens.

Bill Bryson

#8. Life was for living, so why was I wasting it?

Amber Fae

#9. Little drops of rain
Whisper of the pain
Tears of love
Lost in the days gone by.

Robert Plant

#10. America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities ... My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.

John Naisbitt

#11. Flyers, warming letters/gifts, business reply cards, local events (table& banners) , seminar selling, cold canvassing, voice calls, street teams/mascot, internet and inexpensive newspapers ads.

Rashaun Page

#12. Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.

Bernie Sanders

#13. You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.

James Wolk

#14. Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.

Mike Quigley

#15. 48-point type, a letter size that big-city newspapers probably reserve for special occasions such as Armageddon. Out here in the heartland, we are not waiting that long. Our local paper's stance on the great big headline letters is: You got 'em, you use 'em.

Barbara Kingsolver

#16. I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was twelve years old I wrote reports on local football matches for the newspapers.

Colum McCann

#17. There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.

Warren Buffett

#18. Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

Bob Woodward

#19. We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

Jane Smiley

#20. We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

William H. Seward

#21. I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want to own it for reasons other than maximizing profits. I also believe newspapers should remain in local hands.

Eli Broad

#22. The irony of fanaticism is that there is always another group more radical than the previous one.

Sam Fitzgerald

#23. All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

Leopold Von Ranke