Benefits Quote by Harold Evans

Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than…

— Howard Rheingold

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

— Mark Twain

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is ways and means to vent, and sometimes they can be the wrong ways.

— Alun Wyn Jones

Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can…

— Lynda Resnick

At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think…

— Chuck Klosterman

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

— Derek Walcott

I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.

— John Gimlette

It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may,…

— Elmer Davis

I think sometimes we lose sight of how powerful we are when we put someone on the news - for good or bad. It…

— Lester Holt

The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort…

— Martha Beck

There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep…

— Bill Dedman