Quote by Tom Rachman Download Open image ““...news' is often a polite way of saying 'editor's whim.”” — Tom Rachman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
In one sense, newspaper editor is an appropriate job for an out-of-work politician; politicians live the news cycle as intensely as editors. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I think more people should shoot newspaper editors...it might improve the press” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“If it’s in the news, don’t worry about it. The very definition of news is ‘something that hardly ever happens.” — John Brockman (Ed Copy Share Image
“Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.” — Paul Tobin Copy Share Image
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's a quote… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“He cannot deny a certain relief in being able to sift through academic tomes, fulfilling his journalistic duty without having to barge past security… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“I built and I built— heaven knows I have done that well. Those skyscrapers, full of tenants, floor after floor, and not a single… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“What is wrong with guys? Half are molting; half are nothing but undergrowth.” — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“What I really fear is time. That's the devil: whipping us on when we'd rather loll, so the present sprints by, impossible to grasp,… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“Don't people drown their sorrows in things like scotch? Not strawberry whatever-it's-called.” — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
