Monday, June 22, 2009

Lord NorthCliffe On Journalism

"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising."

"Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand."
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You can't dispute the credentials of a man who said, “When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man”.
... was an early pioneer of tabloid journalism. He bought several failing newspapers and made them into an enormously profitable chain, primarily by appealing to the popular taste.
- Wikipedia

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