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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.
Most rock journalism is people who cant write interviewing people who cant talk for people who cant read.
I believe in equality for everyone except reporters and photographers.
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.
Journalism consists largely in saying Lord Jones died to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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.
You (reporters) should have printed what he meant not what he said.
REPORTER n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
For most folks no news is good news; for the press good news is not news.
It isnt what they say about you its what they whisper.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever even to the protagonists.
Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm.’08-02-2010
I respect everyone. I even respect journalists. Responding politely to inane comments by an NBC interviewer Atlanta Olympics.
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
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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Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
Most rock journalism is people who cant write interviewing people who cant talk for people who cant read.
I believe in equality for everyone except reporters and photographers.
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.
Journalism consists largely in saying Lord Jones died to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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.
You (reporters) should have printed what he meant not what he said.
REPORTER n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
For most folks no news is good news; for the press good news is not news.
It isnt what they say about you its what they whisper.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever even to the protagonists.
Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm.’08-02-2010
I respect everyone. I even respect journalists. Responding politely to inane comments by an NBC interviewer Atlanta Olympics.
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
Most rock journalism is people who can?t write interviewing people who can?t talk for people who can?t read.