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Quotations by Subject: Journalism (23 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

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.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.: Bagdikian's Observation
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Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.: Bill Tammeus, in Toronto's National Newspaper, 1991
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
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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.: Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
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