Logo
Quote by Howard Brenton
The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and

The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the unattributable telephone call, late at night. – Howard Brenton

Other quotes by Howard Brenton
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Media
category

Upon comparing BBC News with CNN: Melodrama is something foreigners do. – Jslayeruk, “Random points,” post after July 2005 London subway bombings

Category:
Media

Mark Twain supposedly observed, Dont pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton. Of course, today, he probably would have added, And hairspray by the gallon. – Thomas F. Calcagni

Category:
Media

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. – Warren Chappell

Category:
Media

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

Category:
Media

Random Quotes

I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person. – Mika Brzezinski

Category:
relationship

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people. – Joe Baca

Category:
Equality

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

Category:
Excellence

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. – Margot Asquith

Category:
Liberty