A friendly reminder from George Orwell . . .

[East Coast Pirate]

14. It doesn't look like it was Orwell's quote.

Quote Investigator: The earliest evidence of this saying located by QI was published in 1937 in a British periodical about automobiles called “The Motor” in a section titled “You’ll Be Interested To Know”. The author used the pen name LACUNA. The saying was attributed to an unnamed editor of a major newspaper:

I think that the most accurate definition of news was the one with which the editor of a big-circulation newspaper used to placate the anxious directors when, on the morning after a big “story,” the furious protests, threatening letters and writs for libel were pouring in. “News,” he used to say, trying to get them to look at the thing philosophically, “news is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising.”

The first cite found by QI that credited a specific person with the expression was printed many years later in 1953 when the words were attached to William Randolph Hearst.

More: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/20/news-suppress/