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In a medium in which a News Piece takes a minute and an "In-Depth"
Piece takes two minutes, the Simple will drive out the Complex.
                -- Frank Mankiewicz

Isn't it conceivable to you that an intelligent person could harbor
two opposing ideas in his mind?
                -- Adlai Stevenson, to reporters

Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism
in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with
the ignorance of the community.
                -- Oscar Wilde

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
                -- Matthew Arnold

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who
can't talk for people who can't read.
                -- Frank Zappa

My father was a God-fearing man, but he never missed a copy of the
New York Times, either.
                -- E.B. White

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
                -- Sam Brown, "The Washington Post", January 26, 1977

                     *** NEWSFLASH ***

Russian tanks steamrolling through New Jersey!!!!  Details at eleven!

"No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in that kind of paper."
                -- Mike Royko on the Chicago Sun-Times after it was
                   taken over by Rupert Murdoch