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Letter "J" » journalist
«I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.»
«Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.»
«I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.»
«Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.»
«Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.»
Author: Marguerite Duras
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Film Director,
Novelist,
Playwright,
Screenwriter)
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Keywords:
event,
journalism,
journalist,
judging,
moralist,
reports,
represents,
unavoidable
«I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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Keywords:
Action The,
air hole,
article,
book review,
crank,
cranked,
Cranks,
dislike,
fortnight,
journalist,
novels,
opiate,
opiates,
posed,
posing,
review,
reviewed,
reviewing,
sluggard,
sluggards,
soothed,
soothes
«If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.»
«I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
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Humorist,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
absolve,
absolved,
code,
critter,
critters,
journalist,
Journalists,
motive,
objectivity,
Olympian,
purity,
roach,
roaches,
scurry,
scurrying,
step on,
turn on
«I realized that one gets nowhere unless one talks to people about the things they know. The na?ve person does not appreciate what an insult it is to talk to one's fellows about anything that is unknown to them. They pardon such ruthless behavior only in a writer, journalist or poet.»
«It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
brickbat,
developed,
greatly,
industrious,
journalist,
mightier,
offensive,
paving,
paving stone,
pen,
public servant,
regretted,
sakes,
servant,
sought