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not news." | |
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Gloria Borger
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| "Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a
firearm." | |
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| "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and
photographers." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "I respect everyone. I even respect journalists. Responding politely
to inane comments by an NBC interviewer, Atlanta Olympics." | |
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Alexander ?the Russian Rocket? Popov
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| "It isn"t what they say about you, it"s what they whisper." | |
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Errol Flynn
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| "Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of
journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us
in touch with the ignorance of the community." | |
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Unknown
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| "Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people
who never knew Lord Jones was alive." | |
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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| "Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they
have committed journalism." | |
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Hedrick Smith
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| "Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of
society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "Most rock journalism is people who can"t write interviewing people
who can"t talk for people who can"t read." | |
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Frank Zappa
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| "Most rock journalism is people who can?t write interviewing people
who can?t talk for people who can?t read." | |
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Francis Vincent "Frank" Zappa, Jr.
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| "Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even
to the protagonists." | |
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Norman Mailer
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| "REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels
it with a tempest of words." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism
is unreadable and literature is not read." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who
reads nothing but newspapers." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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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." | |
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Ben Hecht
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| "You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he
said." | |
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Earl Bush
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