Vidal A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment. If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention. In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.