Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law.

Quote by Auberon Waugh

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Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially...

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially...

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I...

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I...

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the...

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the...

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can...

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can...

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a...

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a...

Journalism is organized gossip.

Journalism is organized gossip.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and...

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and...

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing...

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing...

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two...

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will...

There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and...

There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and...

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it...

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it...

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what...

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what...

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live...

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live...

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art,...

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art,...

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all...

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all...