The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. – Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. – Art Buchwald, 1969
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. – Michel De Certeau
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. – Eudora Welty
I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town theres usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea theres six guys waiting for me. – Kevin Pietersen
I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad – experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But theres no question women are paid less. Women dont ask. – Dee Dee Myers
