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JEALOUSY
Jealousy and love are sisters.
-
Russian Proverb.
My
wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked
at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
-
Rodney Dangerfield.
JOURNALISM
I do
not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who
do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time
constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV
news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a
newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of
information, to render the story truly boring.
- Dave
Barry.
I
always turn to the sports section first. The sports section
records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but
man's failures.
- Earl
Warren, quoted in Sports Illustrated.
We
journalists make it a point to know very little about an
extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
- Dave
Barry.
We
journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and
we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us,
especially if it involves outer space.
- Dave
Barry.
If one
morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River,
the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."
-
Lyndon B. Johnson.
Journalists aren't
supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost
as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the
CIA of something.
- P.J. O'Rourke.
No
news is good news. No journalists is even better.
-
Nicolas Bentley.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and
the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel
suits.
-
Stephen Leacock.
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a
bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
-
George Bernard Shaw, 1931.
I've
always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug
it yet.
-
Tommy Docherty.
When a
dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog
that is news.
-
Charles Anderson Dana.
Only
presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to
use the editorial "we".
- Mark
Twain.
Small
earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.
-
Claude Cockburn - put forward as an example of a dull newspaper
headline.
The
secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry
they will write half your paper for you.
-
C.E.M. Joad.
Being
a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
- Anna
Quindlen.
I
believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and
photographers.
-
Gandhi.
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian
principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
-
Oscar Wilde.
Journalism consists
largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew
Lord Jones was alive.
- G.K.Chesterton.
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling
space.
-
Rebecca West.
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