#paper

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#am #believe #great #house #i

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ↗

— Harold Acton

#marred #more #often #paper #real

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred. ↗

— Adele

#buy #day #filling #hatred #i

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#advertising #circulation #classified #created #daily

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. ↗

— Eric Ambler

#business #conduct #human #human blood #ink

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#ask #bag #bank #criminal #desperation

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#become #better #comes #efficient #get

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#business #business model #complain #declining #either

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#collapse #day #his #lazy #most

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. ↗

— Dave Barry

#column #crazy #declining #fact #good