To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies.

Quote by Thomas Griffith

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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...

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public...

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public...

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love...

He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love...

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

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...

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...

Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often...

Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often...

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

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...

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.

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...

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and...

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and...

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or...

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or...

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the...

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the...

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...

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...

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper