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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In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
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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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Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.
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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 lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.
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I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.
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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
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A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.
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If I said that oil production would collapse I was wrong.
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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.
