“There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn’t write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn’t any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society [...]
Posts under ‘Daily Motivation’
Daily Motivation: June 30, 2009
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.
~Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Daily Motivation: June 29, 2009
“Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable.”
~Marguerite Duras
Daily Motivation: June 23, 2009
“The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. ”
~Grace Kelly
Daily Motivation: June 22, 2009
“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.” ~Tom Stoppard (British Playwright, b.1937)