Quote by Jimmy Breslin
The only reason this country is different from any place else is t

The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public. – Jimmy Breslin

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The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. – Jimmy Breslin

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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. – Jimmy Breslin

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All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. – Bobby Knight, on reporters

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The newspaper is the second-hand in the clock of history; and it is not only made of baser metal than those which point to the minute and the hour, but it seldom goes right. – Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), “On Some Forms of Literature,” The Art of

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. – Eric Sevareid, The Press and the People, 1959

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The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. – David Brinkley

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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. – John Milton