Into Motivation

Quotes by William Butler Yeats "A journalist makes up his lies, And takes you by the throat". Quotes by Billy Wilder "Television is...a twenty-one inch person. I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on". Quotes by Oscar Wilde "As for modern journalism, it is not by business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest. There is much ... Read More

Quotes by Barbara Ward "The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay, and can be reasonable sure that press and camera will report their exact dimensions". Quotes by Voltaire "In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation". Quotes by Gore Vidal "The aim of so much journalism is to exploit the moral prejudices of the reader, to say nothing of those of the proprietor". Quotes by Sir Tom Stoppard "I'm with ... Read More

Quotes by James Cameron "The press can only be a mirror - albeit a distorting mirror, according to its politics or the smallness of its purpose - but it rarely lies because it dare not". Quotes by The Bible "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country". Quotes by Arnold Bennett "Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true". Quotes by Cristobal Balenciaga "If you ... Read More

Quotes by Henry Fielding 'A newspaper, which consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not...may, likewise, be compared to a stagecoach, which performs constantly the same course, empty as well as full'. Quotes by Harold Evans "A headline is not an act of journalism, it is an act of marketing". Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot "[Television] is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet ... Read More

Quotes by Clive James "A TV programme can never be worse than its viewers; for the more stupid it is, the more stupid they are to watch it. Anyone who is afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world. The greatest risk to the television critic is bedsores". Quotes by Mick Jagger "It's really difficult to get out of gossip columns once you've got in". Quotes by Richard Ingrams "Children watch too much television not only because indolent ... Read More

Quotes by Lord Longford "On the whole I would not say that our Press is obscene. I would say that it trembles on the brink of obscenity". Quotes by George Lois "Most advertising is absolutely awful, easily forgotten, invisible garbage. That's why most advertising is ignored". Quotes by Walter Lippmann "In order to avoid the embarrassment of calling a spade a spade, newspapermen have agreed to talk about the credibility gap. This is a polite euphemism for deception". Quotes by Fran Lebowitz "Educational television should be absolutely ... Read More

Quotes by John Milton "For evil news rides post, while good news waits". Quotes by Slobodan Milosevic "In the West, we see a complete media darkness where it comes to Yugoslavia, because world global networks have been assigned the task of being an instrument of war and of disinforming the public". Quotes by Arthur Miller "A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself". Quotes by Sir Yehudi Menuhin "Whenever I see a newspaper, I think of the poor trees. A trees they provide beauty, shade ... Read More