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Journalism Quotes by Russell Baker
- Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
- Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
- Serious journalism need not be solemn.
- There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly…
- It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on…
- Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock…
- A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if…
- After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together…
- Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
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- Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. — Russell Baker
- Serious journalism need not be solemn. — Russell Baker
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