If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusting shield of British fair play, so be it.
Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead'to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
Literature istheart of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil. See Shakespeare 742:17.
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
Marxism is at the root of debunking journalism.
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Modern journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinianprinciple ofthesurvival ofthevulgarest.
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