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John Humphrys Biography

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John Humphrys is a renowned British author, known for his in-depth investigative journalism and interview programs. Born on August 17, 1943, his career spans across various fields including news, broadcasting, and writing.

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“It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.”

Journalist Reports Proven

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“The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad - it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.”

Today Television Cynical Old Days

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“If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim.”

Ifs Children Rooms Mark Victim Busy These Days Daddy Neglected Punctuation Mummy Punctuation Marks Neglected Child

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“Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently.”

Thinking World Eye Skateboarding

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“It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.”

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“The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons. The sort of people we've recruited - the best and the brightest - tended to come from universities and backgrounds where they're more likely to hold broadly liberal views than conservative.”

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Born: August 17, 1943
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