"Here in the news media, our focus..." - Quote by Dave Barry
Here in the news media, our focus is on speed. When we get hold of some new and possibly inaccurate information, our highest priority is to get it to you, the public, before our competitors do. If the news media owned airlines, there would be a lot less concern about how many planes crashed, and a lot more concern about whose plane hit the ground first.
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“Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.”
“I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.”
“I do some of my best reading while seated in the bathroom.”
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“It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.”
“Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.”
“The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.”