A Quote by Ben Miller

I'm one of those people that read a newspaper. — © Ben Miller
I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
One of the things that amazes me is the amount of functional illiteracy in this country... people can't read to get around, or people who can't read the newspaper but can barely read street signs.
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.
I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy.
OUR INSPIRATION: Billy Graham, July 2, 1962 “World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It’s being fulfilled every day round about us.
In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with nearly the same degree of respect.
For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.
If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.
As a parent, would you not endorse a decision by your child's school, which encourages her to read a newspaper everyday? In fact, you would be even more approving if the prescribed newspaper was a leading national daily.
People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
The day that I spearheaded the passage of America Fast Forward... the newspaper of record did not put it in the newspaper; what they put was my breakup with my ex-girlfriend. I took umbrage with that. A great newspaper ought to be printing things that people care about, issues that people care about.
We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'
My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.
My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'
I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.
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