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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read. And it’s only news until he’s read it. After that it’s dead.
Evelyn Waugh1903–1966Scoop (1938)
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Critic as Artist Part I (1891), Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1905) The Critic As Artist Part II, in Intentions New York, Bretanos. Retrieved from Library of Congress Americana Archive.org 26 February 2018
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Address to the Associated Press (20 April 1915)