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"Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call."
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"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."
"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."
"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung."
"If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists."
"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."
"If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair."
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"Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives."
"If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked."
"A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines."
"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."
"Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper."
"Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call."
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