"A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man..." — A. J. Liebling

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.