The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
“This American system of ours', he shouted, 'call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one… — claud cockburn Copy Share Image
One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
