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If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with read more
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how read more
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address
Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.
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How shall I speak thee, or thy power address
Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.
. . . .
Like Eden's dead probationary tree,
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
Journalism is the first rough draft of history.
Journalism is the first rough draft of history.
Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it read more
Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people;
for it is they who form a communication between the read more
Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people;
for it is they who form a communication between the learned and
the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two
great divisions of the public.