Amanda Bennett Quotes
It's a time of great uncertainty, but we are focused on doing great journalism for ourselves because we want to and for our readers because they deserve it.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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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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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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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
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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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We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
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People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
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Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.
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Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.
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You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.
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No one deserves anything from you. No one deserves your trust or your love—they have to earn it.
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A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
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The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.
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Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.
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Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.
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Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
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It's a time of great uncertainty, but we are focused on doing great journalism for ourselves because we want to and for our readers because they deserve it.
