"Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters……" — Thomas Griffith
"Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm."
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10 Quotes by Thomas Griffith
Thomas Griffith has 10 quotes on this site.
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Journalism is in fact history on the run.
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Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
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Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to…
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The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
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Journalism as theater is what TV news is.
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To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a…
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Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.
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He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.
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I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very…
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I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working…
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My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to…
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When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.
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I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of…
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
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Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar…
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