"Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds."
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"Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism."
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"Serious journalism need not be solemn."
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"The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal."
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"An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite."
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"Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain."
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"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
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"Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism."
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"If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right."
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"Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space."
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"In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism."
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"Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight."
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"Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor."
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"When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket."
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"Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all."
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"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."
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"If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list."
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"Journalism is the first draft of history"
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"Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda."
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"The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals."
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