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• If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

  Norman Mailer

  Smart, Hands, Novelists

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• I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

  Tom Stoppard

  Inspirational, Believe, Writing

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.196, University of Michigan Press

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• Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fiction, Literature, World

  "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", All Things Considered, 1908.

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• And that's the way it is.

  Walter Cronkite

  Inspiration, Way

  Catchphrase, used at the end of the CBS Evening News (1962-81).

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• We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.

  Conrad Black

  Commitment, Numbers, Views

  "A Brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media from the Sherbrooke Record". 1969.

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• The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Law, Cynical, Prejudice

  More Magazine, 1974.

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• Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

  Graham Greene

  Mean, Media

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• Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.

  Marguerite Duras

  Judging, Events, Looks

  Marguerite Duras (1997). “Outside”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.

  Chris Hughes

  Strong, Believe, Past

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• Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Funny, Virtue, Newspapers

  "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations". Book by Jonathon Green, 1982.

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• The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  James F. Cooper

  Fire, Excellent, Masters

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Writing, Successful, Secret

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• I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

  Gay Talese

  Art, Writing, Standards

  "Lecture: Gay Talese". Bullpen: NYU Journalism, September 14, 2006.

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• Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out of the Pacific surf to journalism school in North Carolina and through the complex challenges and unexpected joys of a cross-cultural marriage and family. This book is a powerfully personal account of the courage and hard work necessary to open one's heart and keep it that way.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Honesty, Book, School

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• Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

  Drew Curtis

  News, Lines, Entertainment

  "Fark's Drew Curtis On How "News" Isn't News". Interview with Brian Montopoli, www.cbsnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  People, May, Too Much

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• I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Fiction, Politics

  The Times 29 Mar. 1960

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• Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Funny, Jobs, Two

  Ryszard Kapuscinski (2013). “The Soccer War”, p.136, Vintage

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• I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Hands, Honor

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• Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Mean, Men

  Letter to Edward Carrington, 16 Jan. 1787

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• The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

  Marlon Brando

  Lying, Support, Stupidity

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• The press is the enemy.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Enemy, Presses

  Conversation Among President Nixon, the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), and the President's Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig), history.state.gov. December 14, 1972.

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• If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

  Karl Kraus

  Lying, Imagination, Journalist

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• The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

  Eric Sevareid

  Courage, Freedom, Mean

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• Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Communication, Bridges, Two

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 407-08, Literary Character of Men of Genius, Miscellanists, 1922.

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