End of the world Quote by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

“There’s nothing American audiences like more than a tragedy with a happy ending.”

— Marcus Berkmann

“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.”

— Toby Young

“As the media was wont to do, their reports became more and more hysterical and fantastical, in an attempt to keep their audience interested,…

— Joshua Dalzelle

“wasn’t it truly ironic that the sole surviving human—that’s what she felt like, after all—would be a journalist? The biggest news story ever and…

— Paul Antony Jones

“We’d had a revelation. This was the direction American movies should take: into idiosyncratic characters, into dialogue with an ear for the vulgar and…

— Roger Ebert

“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.”

— Ira Sadoff

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

— Russell Baker

“It seemed that the media pretty much controlled how the average person perceived the situation. We had little respect for journalists. Throughout my career,…

— Duncan Falconer

“the essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.”

— William Manchester

“After all the talk about the end of the world the irony was that it actually happened.”

— Michael J. Seidlinger

“It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at…

— Nora Ephron

“Now he turned the radio on to the news. As we did our separate chores, we listened and commented idly to each other on…

— Sue Miller