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• A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Dark, Keys, Light

  "Edward Snowden's worst fear has not been realised - thankfully" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2013.

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• To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Opposites, Acting, Realization

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• These pop songs almost feel like tabloid journalism, in a way. It's c**p that people seem to like. And I don't know if it has meaning. I don't know if one of the pop songs of the summer has any fibre in it. People are consuming it, and is it healthy?... Maybe there's some healthy property or some restorative property that I'm not receiving. It seems like it has a really high fructose content.

  Eddie Vedder

  Summer, Song, People

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• Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.

  Irving Kristol

  Phones, Media, Lucky

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• Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

  Patricia Moyes

  Frustrated, Bricks, Journalist

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• I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding ones subjective values makes for more honest and trustworthy journalism. But no journalism - from the most stylistically objective to the most brazenly opinionated - has any real value unless it is grounded in facts, evidence, and verifiable data.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Real, Thinking, Data

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• Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

  Maureen Dowd

  Believe, Rumor, Obsolescence

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• I'm an avid reader, and though it doesn't always work out in terms of relaxation, I've got to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I was a journalism student in college, and I don't feel like I can relax unless I feel informed. When people say they can't watch the news because it's too stressful, I just think, ignorance isn't bliss. It's just another way to procrastinate.

  Sophia Bush

  Ignorance, College, Thinking

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• [To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Jobs, Ambition, Kentucky

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• A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

  Hallie Burnett

  Art, Memories, Events

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• journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Order, World, Way

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.137, Penguin

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• Real crime-beat investigative journalism does seem to be really dwindling, especially in this age with everything being centered around iPhones. Everyone's a journalist today, essentially. Every pedestrian on the street has the potential of capturing a big story on their mobile device and then selling it and making a lot of money.

  Megan Fox

  Real, Iphone, Age

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.

  Brad Pitt

  Believe, Bridges, Decision

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Journalism combines adventure with culture.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Adventure, Culture

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• The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

  Marie Corelli

  Mean, Style, Diction

  Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.304, Health Research Books

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• I love craftsmanship of any kind, a job well done either by my chiropractor or carpenter, and I am addicted to print, the type, the ink. But my basic passion is journalism and I can't live without being online.

  Harold Evans

  Jobs, Passion, Ink

  "Harold Evans: proud to be a publishing crusader". Interview with Zinta Lundborg, www.bendbulletin.com. March 7, 2010.

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• One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.

  Martin Nolan

  New York, Sunday, Media

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• poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

  Annie Dillard

  Mixtures, Able, Interpretation

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.

  Edith Sitwell

  Nurse, Mad, Mind

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan

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• The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

  William C. Bryant

  Taste, Moral, Should

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• Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Enemy, Haste

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• Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

  Honore de Balzac

  Hatred, Giants, Catapults

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• Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Events, Essentials

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

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• I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

  Cecily Strong

  Appearance, Swear

  "Cecily Strong Reminds Reporters: Covering Hillary Clinton’s Appearance Isn’t Journalism" by Ashley Alman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2015.

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• I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

  Ed Asner

  School, Editors, Careers

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