| My definition of news is something that someone, somewhere doesn't want to see in print. The rest is what we call 'advertising.' |
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Dick High
(former editor, Casper Star-Tribune) |
| With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results and stock market quotations, there is no such thing as "objective journalism." The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. |
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Hunter S. Thompson
"Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972" |
| A journalist is a machine that converts coffee into copy. |
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Michael Ryan Elgan
Former Managing Editor, Windows Magazine |
| 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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| Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. |
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Adlai E. Stevenson
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| The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. |
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Oscar Wilde
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| We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. |
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Dave Barry
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| I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it |
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Will Rogers
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| Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. |
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G. K. Chesterton
(1874 - 1936) |