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Quotations by Subject: Journalism (23 quotes)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.: Neil Postman
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.: Joe Keenan
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.: Thomas Higginson
Reality's failure rate is similar to [that of] other barrier contraceptives.: Science News
Water generally flows downhill in this area.: Bob Bennett, WDIV News 4, Detroit, reporting on a flood that destroyed some suburban basement apartments.
...in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.: George Will - Newsweek, 2/22/93
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.: Ross Perot, The Dallas Morning News, March 11, 1984
In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us.: Connie Chung to Johnny Carson

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