October 24, 2014

Word; Journalism

You cannot hope to bribe or twist/Thank God the British journalist/ But seeing what the man will do/ Unbribed, there is no occasion to -- Humbert Wolfe

A journalist is a man who has missed his calling -- Bismarck

Drunkards, deadbeats and bummers -- Harvard president Charles Eliot's description of reporters in rejecting Joseph Pulitzer's offer to endow a journalism school.

Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St. Matthew Passion on a ukulele - Ben Bagdikian

Once you want something from them, they've got you - IF Stone on official sources

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