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"But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.'Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're merely the megaphones of the other people."
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"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
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"A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we do. It's not what they do." Dellarobia was unready to be pushed out of the conversation just like that. "Then what do you think the news people drive their Jeeps all the way out here for?" "To shore up the prevailing view of their audience and sponsors." "Pete takes a dim view of his fellow humans," Ovid said. "He prefers insects. Dellarobia turned her chair halfway around to face Pete, scraping noisily against the cement floor. "You're saying people only tune in to news they know they're going to agree with?" "Bingo," said Pete."
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"But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.'Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're merely the megaphones of the other people."
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"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
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"What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve."
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"I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail."
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"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."
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"I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards."
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"It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism."
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"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."
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"A territory is only possessed for a moment in time."
Philosophy
"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."
Life
"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
Work
"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."
Society
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."
Life
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
Living
"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
Truth
"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
Society
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
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"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
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