Friday, January 22, 2010

Newspapers/Journalism

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff - Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read - Karl Kraus

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand - Lord Northcliffe

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

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