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What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

There is a fearful moment of reckoning before us should it ever chance that when all our trees shall have been sacrificed on the altar of the patron-fiend of news, the newspaper supply shall suddenly be cut off and we find ourselves some fine morning minus our tidbits of shame and failure and disaster, left to the companionship of our own thoughts. Dante never imagined a terror like this.

One of the cardinal rules of journalism: Once you have cabled a story you must stick by it and back it up, unless something completely overwhelming proves you to have been wrong. In such a case, just drop the matter.

It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.

Now listen,' said George angrily, 'I__e been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you what__ going on.''Nonsense. If there__ one place in the world where nobody knows what__ going on, it__ a newspaper office.

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

Journalism delivers news, but not necessarily relevance.

As the final computerized decade of the twentieth century came into view, time itself seemed to speed up and compress into smaller and smaller bytes, leaving less and less time over the breakfast table to ruminate on the fascinating aboriginal lore from the Australian outback or on the clandestine Israeli airlift of Ethiopian Jews out of southern Sudan. Readers preferred news that affected their own lives and they wanted it now. Leisure time was a luxury that fewer and fewer times subscribers enjoyed.

As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists....

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth.""But you are not a lady, Jessamine---," Charlotte began."Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous _ licentious _ abominable _ infernal _ Not that I ever read them _ no _ I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.

You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd you whom the windows observe shame keeps youFrom entering a church and confessing this morningYou read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloudThat's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapersThere are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteriesPortraits of great men and a thousand different headlines("Zone")

What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.