Thomas B. Griffith quotes
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“The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.”
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“Journalism is in fact history on the run.”
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“Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often [they] operate a snack bar . . . and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.”
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“Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson, must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 PM presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press.”
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“To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies.”
-- Thomas B. Griffith
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Source : David Riesman (1955). “Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered”
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“Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty”
Source : Dominic Lawson (1994). “End Game: Kasparov Vs. Short”, Harmony
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“I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.”
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“She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.”
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“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.”
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“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.”
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