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• In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

  Bill Kovach

  Art, Discipline, Fiction

  Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel (2001). “The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect”, p.91, Three Rivers Press

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• On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.

  Ellen Goodman

  Attitude, Thinking, Television

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• the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

  Jessica Mitford

  Writing, Trying, May

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• From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Space, Pressure

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• Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

  Nora Ephron

  Journalist

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• There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

  Nora Ephron

  News, Television, Reason

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.293, Vintage

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• Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

  Erica Jong

  Doe, Irony, Translate

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.

  Harriet Martineau

  Men, Honorable Man, People

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.76

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• Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Eye, Feelings, Brain

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• [On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Aunt, Tears, Maidens

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• [On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Body, Turds, Menace

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• In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

  Ellen Goodman

  News, Amphetamines, World

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• [On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Hurt, Skins, Nails

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• The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.

  Renata Adler

  Movie, Art, People

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• I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

  Chris Hayes

  Blood, Lefties, Labor

  "Chris Hayes Says New MSNBC Show Will Continue Labor Coverage In Ed Schultz’s Tradition" by Dave Jamieson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Russia, Gathering, News

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• Journalism combines adventure with culture.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Adventure, Culture

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• A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism. Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.

  Bill Moyers

  Jobs, Opportunity, Play

  "Bill Moyers Responds to CPB’s Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias: 'We Were Getting it Right, But Not Right Wing'". www.democracynow.org. May 16, 2005.

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• We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.

  George Sand

  Writing, Cutting, Liberty

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.111, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

  Martha Gellhorn

  People

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• [On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

  Maureen Dowd

  Struggle, Firsts, Imperfect

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• The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.

  Enid Bagnold

  Hands, Littles, Bread

  Enid Bagnold (2013). “National Velvet”, p.302, Courier Corporation

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• The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Estates, Realms, Fourth

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• the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mirrors, Media, People

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

  Theodore Tilton

  Book, Lectures, Sermons

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