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Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight. But I'm neither a chemist nor an editor; all I do is take the pill or the assignment and see what happens. Now and then I get a bad trip, but experience has made me more careful about what I buy... so if you have a good pill I'm open; I'll try almost anything that hasn't bitten me in the past.


Hunter S. Thompson


#journalism #writing #writing-life #experience

This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions; journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view.


Christopher Essex


#science #science

A bug lies in quiet repose; when he passed no one knows. Did he suffer, was he pained? Before he died, was knowledge gained? Were all life’s pressures much too great.To put upon so small a weight? Although not one for pessimism, I think he died of journalism!


Nikhil Sharda


#journalism #life

We had all opted to take City's financial reporting course work, which, in theory, meant we wanted to write about stock prices and corporate takeovers. That, of course, was a joke. No one still in their twenties, and broke, goes into journalism to write about money—a subject in which they still have zero practical experience.


Chris Ayres


#journalism #business

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.


Tina Brown


#love #power #women #love

Dude, you're a vampire. EVERY day sucks for you.


Heather Brewer


#journalism

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.


Noam Chomsky


#journalism #propaganda #war #journalist

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.


John Pilger


#media #politics #journalist

I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.


William T. Sherman


#glory #journalism #military

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]


Tamora Pierce


#first-day #police-officer #journalism






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