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Journalism Quotes
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all."
-Oscar Wilde
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once."
-Cyril Connolly
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"Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits."
-Stephen Leacock
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"Journalistic hours are odd and long and often tense, and newsmen seek each other out as natural allies in a world that is so much part of them, but which they visit so randomly."
-Osborn Elliott
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"The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign."
-Hugh Sidey
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"You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be."
-Joseph Campbell
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"One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that newspapermen are breezy and raffish. What other play has for so long fed the self-image of journalists?"
-Jay Carr
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"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."
-Russel Lynes
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"The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it."
-Alexander Cockburn
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"The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters."
-Bob Greene
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"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality."
-Thomas Griffith
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"Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand."
-Lord Northcliffe
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"I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world."
-Henry R. Luce
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"Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele."
-Bagdikian's Observation
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"There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great."
-Walter Lippmann
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"Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance."
-Dan Rather
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"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
-Aleister Crowley
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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
-Henry Fielding
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"I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made."
-Amy Vanderbilt
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"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."
-Frank Zappa
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"The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm."
-Gay Talese
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"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."
-Ben Hecht
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"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."
-Jimmy Breslin
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"All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else."
-H. L. Mencken
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