#journal

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#epigram #tabloid-journalism #wisdom #wisdom

You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or take notes on a series of events you may have observed that are suspicious, unfortunate, or very dull. Keep your commonplace book in a safe place, such as underneath your bed, or at a nearby dairy. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#journal #observation

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. ↗

— David Sedaris

#journals #justice #justice

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#journalism #mainstream-media #newspapers #journalist

We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly. ↗

— John Pilger

#journalism #justice #media #peace #media

Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do. ↗

— Max Brooks

#media #news #spin #media

How frail the human heart must be -- a mirrored pool of thought. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#human-heart #thought #journalism

I think I am mad sometimes. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#journalism

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#journalism

Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#princess #journalism