89 Quotes About Journalists
- Author William Butler Yeats
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I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
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- Author Stella Gibbons
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The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
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- Author Adlai E. Stevenson II
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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- Author William Butler Yeats
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...nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.
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- Author Alexis Hall
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I tried to remind myself that journalists were like tyrannosauruses. Their vision was based on movement.
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- Author حافظ إبراهيم
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وَأَديبِ قَومٍ تَستَحِقُّ يَمينُهُقَطعَ الأَنامِلِ أَو لَظى الإِحراقِيَلهو وَيَلعَبُ بِالعُقولِ بَيانُهُفَكَأَنَّهُ في السِحرِ رُقيَةُ راقيفي كَفِّهِ قَلَمٌ يَمُجُّ لُعابُهُسُمّاً وَيَنفِثُهُ عَلى الأَوراقِيَرِدُ الحَقائِقَ وَهيَ بيضٌ نُصَّعٌقُدسِيَّةٌ عُلوِيَّةُ الإِشراقِفَيَرُدُّها سوداً عَلى جَنَباتِهامِن ظُلمَةَ التَمويهِ أَلفُ نِطاقِعَرِيَت عَنِ الحَقِّ المُطَهَّرِ نَفسُهُفَحَياتُهُ ثِقلٌ عَلى الأَعناقِلَو كانَ ذا خُلُقٍ لَأَسعَدَ قَومَهُبِبَيانِهِ وَيَراعِهِ السَبّاقِ
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- Author Graham Greene
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I was a correspondent: I thought in headlines.
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- Author Dan Lyons
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In a room full of journalists someone would already be doing an impersonation of the Robot Man. We’d also make fun of the smarmy host, who is a bit like Tom Bergeron, host of Hollywood Squares, America’s Funniest Home Videos, and Dancing with the Stars, only cheesier, which is remarkable because Tom Bergeron is already the gold standard of cheesiness, and yet here is this total amateur, this complete unknown, blowing Bergeron away.
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- Author David Burr Gerrard
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Journalists of late seem too eager to change the world in various ways; the point is to describe it, accurately and carefully.
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