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• I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.

  Molly Ivins

  Funny, Suicide, Mind

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• Journalism is in fact history on the run.

  Thomas B. Griffith

  Running, Facts

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• Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour.

  John Pilger

  Jobs, Rocks, Peers

  John Pilger (2011). “Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs”, p.15, Random House

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• It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not protect you forever.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Knives, Forever, Kevlar

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• If you're in Journalism and you're looking for friends, you should get a dog.

  Dan Rather

  Dog, Should, Ifs

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• Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

  Dan Rather

  Art, Crude, Precise

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• With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

  Donald Davis

  Funny, Writing, Editors

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• The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

  Frank Miller

  Writing, Shows, Please

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• Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

  Andrew Marr

  Gossip

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• It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stones, Sake, Offensive

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1056, Wordsworth Editions

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• If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Jail, People

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• Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper

  Mother Teresa

  Media, Difficult, Bathing

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• Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

  Tom Brokaw

  Top Down, People, Happens

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• With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Epic, Race, Modern Journalism

  "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973.

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• Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

  Harold Evans

  Funny, Thoughtful, Blogging

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• I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

  Marguerite Duras

  Passionate, Literature, Journalist

  "Practicalities (Walesa's Wife)". Book by Marguerite Duras, 1990.

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• Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 08, 2009

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• I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Airplane, Elephants

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• It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

  Paul Watson

  Drama, Communication, Law

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• Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

  Amy Hempel

  Writing, Interesting, Want

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• We've seen the bankruptcy of many newspapers. We've seen a further erosion of the line between news and entertainment. But I do believe that there is reason to hope that over time we will see the higher-quality journalism rise to the surface.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Erosion, Quality

  "In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 14, 2017.

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• The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

  John Chancellor

  Add, Information, Function

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• I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I said, "By the way, do you know what is in the Fourth Amendment?" One student responded, "Is that the right to bear arms?" It's hard to believe these are bright students.

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, School, Arms

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Buying, Serious

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy.

  Doris Lessing

  Philosophy, Army, Should Have

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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