"The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd."

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Robert Waterman McChesney

#Media Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Journalism Quotes

“No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.”

Source : Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”
“I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.”

Source : Source: music.avclub.com
“Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.”
“Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.”
“Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears”
“There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1989). “Soulstorm: Stories”, p.162, New Directions Publishing
“While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.”
“You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.”

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