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Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as
they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big
enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements;
by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of
news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an
ambassador.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: in the "Tatler", no. 224
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I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this
paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part
of the tea equipage.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: in the "Spectator", no. 10
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The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a
proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which a good
thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of
bankrupt.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: in the "Tatler", no. 224
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They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture,
employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great
numbers of indigent persons.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: in the "Spectator", no. 367
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Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything;
The world's a fine believing world, write news.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Wit without Money (act II)
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[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who
have failed in their career.
Author: Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck
Source: to a deputation from Rugen to the King
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Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the
press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and
muzzled the politicians.
Author: Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck
Source: to a deputation from Rugen to the King
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Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-
If there's a hole in a' your coats,
I rede you tent it:
A chield's amang you takin notes,
And, faith, he'll prent it.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: On Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland
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A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon,
A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,
Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean,
And furbish falsehoods for a magazine.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 975)
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The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with
care,
His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a
chair,
His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his
head,
His eyes on his dusty table, with different documents spread.
Author: Will Carleton
Source: Farm Ballads--The Editor's Guest
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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: French Revolution (pt. I, bk. VI, ch. 5)
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Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the
world, being the persuader of it?
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: French Revolution (pt. II, bk. 1, ch. 4)
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the
Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more
important far than they all.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Heroes and Hero-Worship (lecture V)
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A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the
Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Latter Day Pamphlets (no. VI, Parliaments)
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To serve thy generation, this thy fate:
"Written in water," swiftly fades thy name;
But he who loves his kind does, first and late,
A work too late for fame.
Author: Mary Clemmer (Mary Clemmer Ames)
Source: The Journalist (last stanza)
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Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost,
Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?
Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,
Star-eyed intelligence?
Author: Mary Clemmer (Mary Clemmer Ames)
Source: The Journalist (st. 9)
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I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains
more useful information than the whole of the historical works of
Thucydides.
Author: Richard Cobden
Source: in a speech at the Manchester Athenaeum, Dec. 27, 1850
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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove
A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Charity (l. 624)
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How shall I speak thee, or thy power address
Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.
. . . .
Like Eden's dead probationary tree,
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Progress of Error (l. 452)
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He comes, the herald of a noisy world,
With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks;
News from all nations lumbering at his back.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. IV, l. 5)
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When found, make a note of.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: Dombey and Son (ch. 15)
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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.
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
Source: Literary Character of Men of Genius--Miscellanists
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None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than
three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by
in silence that very large and powerful body which form the
fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.
Author: Henry Fielding
Source: Covent Garden Journal
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Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors
Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers.
Author: David Garrick
Source: prologue to Sheridan's "School for Scandal"
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The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil,
political, and religious rights of an Englishman.
Author: Junius
Source: Dedication to Letters
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You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
Author: Earl Bush
Source: None
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Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Source: None
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Journalism is merely history's first draft.
Author: Geoffrey C. Ward
Source: None
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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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.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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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.
Author: Ben Hecht
Source: None
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Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Author: Hedda Hopper
Source: None
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The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Source: None
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Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Author: Frank Zappa
Source: None
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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
Author: Marguerite Duras
Source: None
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Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
Author: Maureen Dowd
Source: None
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Author: Aneurin Bevan
Source: None
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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
Author: Eric Sevareid
Source: None
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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.
Author: Daniel Moynihan
Source: None
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: None
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Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied.
Author: Otto von Bismarck
Source: None
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What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining.
Author: Mike Ditka
Source: None
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Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
Author: William Randolph Hearst
Source: None
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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.
Author: Abbie Hoffman
Source: None
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Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
Author: Rebecca West
Source: None
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There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers.
Author: Carl Rowan
Source: None
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Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.
Author: James Gordon Bennett
Source: None
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