Editorials Quotes - Page 5

• The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

  Roger Mudd

  Sea, Judgement, Television

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• The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

  Terri Windling

  Nature, Jobs, Thinking

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• Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.

  Michael Eisner

  Views, Background Noise, Appreciate

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• One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

  Karl Kraus

  Clothes, Skins, Borders

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are invariably translated into 'Colson's professed religious experience.' I discovered that one major U.S. daily, as a matter of policy, will not print the two words Jesus Christ together; when combined, the editor says, it represents an editorial judgment.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• I do love editorials - youre free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

  Jacquelyn Jablonski

  Character, Different, Want

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• The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process ?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Availability, Speak, Process

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.252, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Enlightening, Educator, Newspapers

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• The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.

  David M. Raup

  Gossip, Television, Maelstrom

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• Official opposition to overall economic planning and planning controls has been characterized in a recent editorial as "Papa knows best." But it is precisely because Papa does not know best that I believe that Government should not presume to tell any businessman or industrialist what he should or should not do, far less what he may or not do; and no matter how it may be dressed up that is what planning is.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Believe, Government, May

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 133), March 30, 1962.

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• [Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.

  Indro Montanelli

  Art, Style, Genius

  "Montanelli e il Cavaliere: storia di un grande e di un piccolo uomo" by Marco Travaglio, 2009.

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• I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.

  Janice Dickinson

  Girl, Runway, Models

  "Janice Dickinson's Model Behavior". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.tvguide.com. June 26, 2006.

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• When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

  David Fincher

  Believe, Mean, People

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• I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page.

  Al Franken

  Wall, Mean, Thinking

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• There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Needs, Looks

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Community, Political, Paper

  "Why Don't You? Sarah Jessica Parker" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 4, 2009.

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• If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Long, Fans, Needs

  "Exclusive: J. Michael Straczynski Talks About...well, Everything". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2011.

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• Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Kings, Inspiration

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• I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

  E. B. White

  Cat, Office, Firsts

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

  Tom Wolfe

  Thinking, People, Pages

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• I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  College, Men, Yale

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.

  Frank Crowninshield

  Believe, Two, Vanity

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• Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Newspapers, Controversy

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• Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it wasn't just about the clothes.

  Herb Ritts

  Clothes, Saws, Assignments

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• You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got a civilised life to lead? People want economic development first and foremost. The leaders may talk something else. You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Jobs, School, Home

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