"I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by."-Douglas Adams
"Bakers can eat their mistakes, judges can overturn their mistakes, doctors can bury their mistakes, but journalists must forever face their mistakes because the written word is eternal." Anonymous
"The First Amendment guarantees you many things, but it doesn't guarantee that you won't be offended."
-Tracy Beton, journalist, educator, 2001
“Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words…Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds—the writer is always slightly behind.” -anonymous
"We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report." -Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa
“It’s all storytelling, you know. That’s what journalism is all about.” -Tom Brokaw
“In journalism, there has always been tension between getting it first and getting it right.” -Ellen Goodman
“Journalism is literature in a hurry.” -Matthew Arnold
"I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by."-Douglas Adams
"Bakers can eat their mistakes, judges can overturn their mistakes,
doctors can bury their mistakes, but journalists must forever face their
mistakes because the written word is eternal."
Anonymous
"The First Amendment guarantees you many things, but it doesn't
guarantee that you won't be offended."
-Tracy Beton, journalist, educator, 2001
“Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words…Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds—the writer is always slightly behind.”
-anonymous
"We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report."
-Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa
“It’s all storytelling, you know. That’s what journalism is all about.”
-Tom Brokaw
“In journalism, there has always been tension between getting it first and getting it right.”
-Ellen Goodman
“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”
-Matthew Arnold