A midsummer night's chuckle, or two.Under the head, "On the sunny side: It's summertime, and the reading is easy, hooray!," Editor & Publisher ran a number of light-hearted anecdotes, bloopers and headlines on the profession of journalism. Among them: * C.K. Chesterton: "Journalism consists largely in saying, 'Lord Jones is dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive." * Lord Northcliffe called journalism a "profession whose business it is to explain what it personally does not understand." * Lowell Thomas: "All my life, I've felt I was a reporter. Not a journalist. A journalist is a newspaperman who is out of work." * Charles A. Dana Charles A. Dana may refer to:
* Former Gannett executive John C. Quinn put the differing styles of newspapers in perspective when he predicted how newspapers (including his own USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. ) would headline the ultimate story--the end of the world: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. "World Ends! Third World Countries Hardest Hit" The Washington Post: "WORLD ENDS. White House Ignored Early Warnings." USA Today: "We're dead! State-by-State Demise Death. A conveyance of property, usually of an interest in land. Originally meant a posthumous grant but has come to be applied commonly to a conveyance that is made for a definitive term, such as an estate for a term of years. , page 8-A. Final Sports Results, page 10-C." * Finally, the headline given a Buffalo Evening News story on a no-nonsense judge who's a pushover push·o·ver n. 1. One that is easily defeated or taken advantage of. 2. Something that is easily done or attained. See Synonyms at breeze1. when at home among his family: "Judge Loses Firmness When He Doffs His Robe." |
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