Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people
who can't read.
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—Frank Zappa, 1993
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
—Karl Kraus, 1976
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
—Russell Lynes, 1966
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from
the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1913
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Some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.
—T. S. Eliot, 1982
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I believe that the actual applicability of this definition is much broader.
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A similar, but evidently later line by Adlai E. Stevenson is frequently quoted.
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who can't read.
18
—Frank Zappa, 1993
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
—Karl Kraus, 1976
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
—Russell Lynes, 1966
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from
the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1913
19
Some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.
—T. S. Eliot, 1982
18
I believe that the actual applicability of this definition is much broader.
19
A similar, but evidently later line by Adlai E. Stevenson is frequently quoted.
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