"To hell with the news. I'm no longer interested in news. I'm interested in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth..." Ben Bradlee --former Washington Post executive editor
"Truth and news are not the same thing." Katharine Graham, owner of The Washington Post
Can't verify either of those. But one that I can verify was made by a guy (Carl Liberto) who used to be the Managing Editor of the old Shreveport (LA) Journal. It was an afternoon paper put out of its misery 15 years ago by the morning Gannett paper.
Anyway, he made the statement in a radio interview, "News is what your editor says it is unless the Publisher says it isn't."