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| Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. (G. K. Chesterton) |
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| Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. (Elbert Hubbard) |
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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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| Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. (Russel Lynes) |
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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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| 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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| The advertisement is the most truthful part of 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 The Critic as Artist 1891) |
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| Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. (Thomas Jefferson Letter to Nathaniel Macon January 12 1819) |
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| It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. (Jerry Seinfeld) |
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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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| 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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| Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. (Cyril Connolly Enemies of Promise) |
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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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| People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. (A. J. Liebling) |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 Letter to Nathaniel Macon January 12 1819) |
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