“The truth is that all that stuff – the Stig, the Tardis, the Blue Peter dog – does belong to the licence payer, and not to some opportunists who think they can come along and take a slice when they feel like it.” Continue Reading

“BBC management have taken a lot of stick in recent years, which is unfair. Some should at least be applauded for their unwavering commitment and consistency in taking credit for other people’s ideas.” Continue Reading

“They stop caring what the truth is. Then they get to write about WMDs.”

Starsuckers director Chris Atkins explains why it’s a bad idea for tabloids to make showbiz columnists such as Dominic Mohan editors of newspapers. Continue Reading

“We don’t really live experiences, we live them to report them.”

Psychologist David Holmes says our social-update culture means we alienate ourselves from genuine encounters with each other. Continue Reading

“The argument that information wants to be free is only said by those who want it for free.” Continue Reading

“WikiLeaks could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act.”

Time magazine’s 2007 assessment proves somewhat prophetic.

(Source: Time magazine)

“In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.”
Harold Evans

“Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.”
Kingsley Amis

“In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.”
Ellen Goodman

“Newspapers are unable seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.”
George Bernard Shaw

“Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.”
Norman Mailer

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort ‘em as much as you please.”
Mark Twain

“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

“Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor’s prejudices as the advertisers won’t object to.”
Hannen Swafffer

“English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too.”

Sarah Palin makes a humbled comparison after coming up with the word ‘refudiate’ on her Twitter account.

(Source: MediaGuardian)

“If it is possible for a continent to be patted on the head, ITV and BBC managed it.“

MediaGuardian columnist Martin Kelner blasts the “patronising” coverage of the World Cup.

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