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Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. |
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Journalistic hours are odd and long and often tense, and newsmen seek each other out as natural allies in a world that is so much part of them, but which they visit so randomly. |
Journalists are like whores; as high as their ideals may be, they still have to resort to tricks to make money |
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism. |
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Tom Stoppard (1937-) |
Tom Stoppard (1937-) |
Stephen Fry (1957-) |
Gay Talese (1932-) |
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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? |