One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that newspapermen are breezy and raffish. What other play has for so long fed the self-image of journalists?

Quote by Jay Carr

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They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is...

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is...

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor...

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor...

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who...

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who...

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...

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not...

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not...

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the...

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the...

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad...

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad...

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to...

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to...

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the...

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the...

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...

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder...

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder...

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times,...

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times,...

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a...

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a...

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people...

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people...

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.

Politics is just show business for ugly people

Politics is just show business for ugly people

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...

Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority...

Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority...