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"Media, the plural of mediocrity."
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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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"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place."
"If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest."
"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."
"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines."
"Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood."
"Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage."
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