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When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
CHARLES ANDERSON DANA, The New York Sun, 1882
The best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.
GEORGE W. BUSH, FOX interview, Sep. 23, 2003
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.
G.K. CHESTERTON, All Things Considered
The proper presentation of the news bears about the same relation to the whole field of happenings that a painting does to a photograph. The photograph might give the more accurate presentation of details, but in doing so it might sacrifice the opportunity the more clearly to delineate character.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech, Jan. 17, 1925
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?
MARY CLEMMER AMES, The Journalist
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, quoted in Jewish Wit and Wisdom
Today’s journalism is obsessed with the kinds of things that tend to preoccupy thirteen-year-old boys: sports, sex, crime, and narcissism.
STEVEN STARK, Atlantic Monthly, Sep. 1994
Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
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