Alan Rusbridger Quotes
In the days when we could take it for granted that journalism mattered, we could only share assumptions about what it was, how it was delivered and funded, but this is not the case any more.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
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As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.
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I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.
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I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.
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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
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Music is to give, share.
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Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.
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A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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I think the tools were always available, for decades and decades, to make your own film and be creative. I don't think people had to wait for YouTube to do this type of small project. YouTube, I think it's great. I have this idiotic satisfaction. And I think there's a bit of that in YouTube. You share, true, but it's centralized, and it's already sort of controlled. I'm more for something that's not a centralized medium. Like doing your own film and screening it yourself. You cannot control people doing that.
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I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.
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All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.
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So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
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I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.
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In the days when we could take it for granted that journalism mattered, we could only share assumptions about what it was, how it was delivered and funded, but this is not the case any more.
