“All the faults of the age come from Christianity and Journalism.”
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Frank Harris
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“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.”
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan, ‘The Critic’
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“Instead of monopolizing the seat of judgment, journalism should be apologizing in the dock.”
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Oscar Wilde
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“Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.”
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James G. Watt
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“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.”
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G. K. Chesterton
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“Journalism – a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.”
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Lord Northcliffe
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“Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.”
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Frank Zappa
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“Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature and, through her, God.”
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Henry David Thoreau, author
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“There is one deadly, damning account against the daily newspaper as it is coming to be; namely, it doesn’t give the news.”
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Edward Alsworth Ross
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