"There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil."

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Source : Walter Lippmann (1995). “Liberty and the News”, p.15, Transaction Publishers

Walter Lippmann

#Law Quotes #Devil Quotes #Journalism Quotes

“Do not fret over the ignorant person; surely they have not had the opportunities which illuminated your path.”
“My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.”
“A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.”
“I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.”
“I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that.”
“Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.”
“Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.”
“Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.”

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