The saga of DEAR ABBY is an acknowledged phenomenon of contemporary journalism.
With a daily readership of more than 95 million, the column has a devoted following
who wouldn't dream of starting their day without first reading DEAR ABBY.
--Unknown
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
--Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Punctuation is the sound of your voice on paper.
--Joseph Collignan The Last Rhetoric, or Write Now or Forget It, 1974
Internet publishing can be more powerful than print journalism,
given its immediacy and lack of corporate or governmental filters.
--Dave Winer
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing
when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
--Rod Serling
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but,
as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible
--Van Wyck Brooks
Fact that is fact every day is not news; it's truth. We report news, not truth.
--Linda Ellerbee
Pigs flying over the frozen landscape of hell reported that
online retailer Amazon.com turned in the first profit in its history on Tuesday,
just moments after the sun set in the East." What's next?
People paying to read an online newsletter?
--Jen Muehlbauer SatireWire.com
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism
is unreadable and literature is not read.
--Oscar Wilde
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