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  If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  America, Choices, Would Be

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• It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.

  Russell Baker

  Writing, Self Confidence, Arrogance

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• There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

  Walter Lippmann

  Law, Devil, Telling The Truth

  Walter Lippmann (1995). “Liberty and the News”, p.15, Transaction Publishers

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• Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Media, America

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• We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Practice, Government, Literature

  Life, May 07, 1965.

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• Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Funny, Dog, Moving

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• Journalism is literature in a hurry.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Reality, Literature

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• Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Evil, Tribute, Journalist

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• I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

  Aaron McGruder

  News, Unbiased, Want

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• I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.

  Tommy Docherty

  Media, Said, Havens

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• If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Lists, Journalist, Objectives

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• The first rough draft of history.

  Ben Bradlee

  Rough Drafts, Firsts, Rough

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• I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.

  Angelina Jolie

  Book, News Stories, Appreciate

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. May 25, 2007.

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• The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

  Colin Powell

  Stupid, Media, Answers

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• Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Country, Money, Women

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• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Photography, Believe, Equality

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• Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

  Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

  Media, Doe, Newspaper Reporters

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• As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Newspapers, Columnists

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.147, Ballantine Books

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• The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sarcastic, Character, Men

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• The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

  William Faulkner

  Fiction, Newspapers, Gonzo

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• The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

  Tom Stoppard

  People, Tragedy, Best Work

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• Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

  David Remnick

  Overrated, Subjects

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• When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Sports, Accomplishment, News

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

  Clive Owen

  Stupid, Doe, Journalist

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• Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Jobs, Writing

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.48, Ballantine Books

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