Quotations For Journalism Paper..
 

[CENTER][B][SIZE="4"]Some Quotes on Journalism[/SIZE][/B][/CENTER]

[B]1-[/B]The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)


[B]2-[/B]People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
[I]A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963) [/I]

[B]3-[/B]To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
[I]Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947) [/I]

[B]4-[/B]A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)

[B]5-[/B]Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
[I]Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964) [/I]

[B]6-[/B]Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

[B]7-[/B]Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

[B]8-[/B]Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
[I]Gore Vidal[/I]

[B]9-[/B]It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
[I]Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - ) [/I]

[B]10-[/B]Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin

[B]11-[/B]You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)

[B]12-[/B]Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
[I]Norman Mailer [/I]

[B]13-[/B]But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
[I]Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891 [/I]

[B]14-[/B]Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
[I]Russel Lynes[/I]

[B]15-[/B]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 (1869 - 1944)

[B]16-[/B]I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
[I]Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) [/I]

[B]17-[/B]I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
[I]Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819[/I]

[B]18-[/B]Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. [I]Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)[/I]

[B]19-[/B]Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819

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[B]1-[/B]You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas,

[B]2-[/B]The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Bill Cosby (1937 - )


[B]3-[/B]Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)


[B]4-[/B]If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough. (Jeffrey Kalmikoff)


[B]5-[/B]Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)


[B]6-[/B]Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)


[B]7-[/B]Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)