quotations about the news media
Journalism is in fact history on the run. It is history written in time to be acted upon: thereby not only recording events but at times influencing them.
THOMAS GRIFFETH
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attributed, Nieman Reports, 1958
A piece of news loses its flavor when it hath been an hour in the air. I love, if I may so speak, to have it fresh from the tree, and to convey it to my friends before it is faded.
RICHARD STEELE
The Spectator, No. 625
He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.
ROBERT CORMIER
I Am the Cheese
Whatever a patron desires to get published is advertising; whatever he wants to keep out of the paper is news.
ANONYMOUS
The Fourth Estate: A Newspaper for the Makers of Newspapers
Without news to feed it, the biggest story starves.
EMLYN WILLIAMS
Beyond Belief
Information is the most valuable commodity in the world today and this business is about giving people access to information that is relevant to their lives.
JAMES MURDOCH
Forbes, July 1998
Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one.
MAX BROOKS
World War Z