"Television is a medium, so called because it is neither rare nor well done."

Ernie Kovacs, comedian

1955

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would have read: 'President Can't Swim.'"

President Lyndon B. Johnson

"It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism."

Charles Osgood, CBS News

"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."

David Brinkley, NBC News

"Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization."

George Bernard Shaw, playwright

1931

"I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures."

Chief Justice Earl Warren

Quoted in Sports Illustrated in 1968