Kathryn Flett quotes

“The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.”
-- Kathryn Flett

Source : "Thank goodness it's a jungle out there" by Kathryn Flett, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

#Years Quotes #Editors Quotes #America Quotes

“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”

“The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.”

“The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.”

“Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.”

“I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic than magazine illustration - since it is entirely creative. An illustrator works with camera and models; a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business - he is playwright, director, editor and artist at once.”

Source : Alex Raymond (1990). “Flash Gordon: Mongo, the planet of doom”

“It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.”

“It’s true: Medium has the best web-based editor I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen them all.”

“America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.”

“I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.”

“We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.”