"Real journalism is publishing something that somebody..." - Quote by George Orwell
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
“The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.”
“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
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“If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.”
“Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.”
“Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.”
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“There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.”
“It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.”
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”