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“Journalism is the first rough draft of history.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.”
Henry Anatole Grunwald Quotes |
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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.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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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.”
Dave Barry Quotes |
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“Journalism is in fact history on the run.”
Thomas Griffith Quotes |
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“Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.”
G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
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“Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law”
Auberon Waugh Quotes |
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“Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”
John Hersey Quotes |
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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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“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.”
Joseph Addison Quotes 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.”
Joseph Addison Quotes 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.”
Joseph Addison Quotes 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.”
Joseph Addison Quotes 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.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes 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.”
Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck Quotes 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.”
Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck Quotes 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.”
Robert Burns Quotes 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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
Will Carleton Quotes Source: Farm Ballads--The Editor's Guest
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“A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes 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?”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes 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.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes 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.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes 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.”
Mary Clemmer (Mary Clemmer Ames) Quotes 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?”
Mary Clemmer (Mary Clemmer Ames) Quotes Source: The Journalist (st. 9)
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