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“Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.”

People Thinking Doe Business Journalism Entering Sewage

Author:Stephen Fry

“There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.”

Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.”

Source: A child of the century

“Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.”

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Author:Elbert Hubbard

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.”

“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”

Source: Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

“The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.”

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Author:David Brinkley

“Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.”

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Author:Daniel Handler