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Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador. - Joseph Addison, in the "Tatler", no. 224 I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage. - Joseph Addison, in the "Spectator", no. 10 The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of bankrupt. - Joseph Addison, in the "Tatler", no. 224 They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons. - Joseph Addison, in the "Spectator", no. 367 Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. - Kingsley Amis Journalism is literature in a hurry. - Matthew Arnold Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds. - Honore de Balzac Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Wit without Money (act II) [The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career. - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck, to a deputation from Rugen to the King Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land. - Samuel Bowles Put it all in the first paragraph. - Samuel Bowles Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. - David Brinkley The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals. - William Cullen Bryant Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it: A chield's amang you takin notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. - Robert Burns, On Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon, Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean, And furbish falsehoods for a magazine. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 975) Sometimes good journalism is bad public relations. - Steve Capus The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty table, with different documents spread. - Will Carleton, Farm Ballads--The Editor's Guest The press is the fourth estate of the realm. - Thomas Carlyle A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. - Thomas Carlyle, French Revolution (pt. I, bk. VI, ch. 5) Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? - Thomas Carlyle, French Revolution (pt. II, bk. 1, ch. 4) Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. - Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship (lecture V) A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. - Thomas Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets (no. VI, Parliaments) To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame. - Mary Clemmer (Mary Clemmer Ames), The Journalist (last stanza) Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence? - Mary Clemmer (Mary Clemmer Ames), The Journalist (st. 9) I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides. - Richard Cobden, in a speech at the Manchester Athenaeum, Dec. 27, 1850 Displaying page 1 of 4 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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