~ Journalism - a profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. ~
~ We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. ~
~ Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law
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~ Journalism's ultimate purpose [is] to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests. ~
~ Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.
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~ Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ~
~ Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read ~