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It's the most heavily sought-after award. It's the Oscar of broadcast journalism.


Doug Green

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H.L. MENCKEN Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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JOHN MCMANUS After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community co...
CHRIS ROCK Its just an award that says you haven't pissed anyone off. I just like the fact that my players are ...
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OSCAR WILDE Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulga...
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OSCAR W. FIRKINS I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought...
OSCAR WILDE I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone ...
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OSCAR WILDE Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.
THOMAS FRANK What's the meaning of life? Other people.
JOHN GREEN If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
JULIAN ASSANGE The same costume will be Indecent 10 years before its time, Shameless 5 years before its time, Outr?...
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DAVID HALBERSTAM We've promoted the film heavily and our audiences are expecting it to be on. We will broadcast it.
JASON MACDONALD The same dress is indecent ten years before its time; daring one year before its time; chic (contemp...
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JEFF JARVIS I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's...
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CORRIE TEN BOOM He becomes the most sought-after lawyer once it is discovered he is actually a rat.
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ISAAC DISRAELI discourage its use.
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JOYCE HARRIS After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
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JUSTIN HARMON In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The...
TONY KUSHNER I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and w...
L.M. MONTGOMERY He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made hi...
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HELEN GARNER ...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
WENDELL BERRY Our Web site is so widely known and so heavily used that I think it's got a momentum of its own.
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RON COGAN Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
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SHERRILYN KENYON I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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ISABELLA BIRD The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing ...
CLARA ZETKIN Saudi Arabia has lost one of its dutiful sons, a leader among the most dear of its leaders and men,
HOSNI MUBARAK I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.
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LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The crisis of the community, its dislocation, the distress of most of its members, went hand in hand...
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SARAH HARRISON Change must come before it's too late, the nature destroyed forever we shall not find.
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ANNIE BESANT the most-hated manager in British journalism.
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KATE MILLETT However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the mos...
KATE MILLET However muted its present appearance may be, sexual domination obtains nevertheless as perhaps the m...
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JOHN GREEN And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in...
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JOHN GREEN There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was ...
JOHN GREEN I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
JOHN GREEN And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure ...
JOHN GREEN Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an...
JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti...
JOHN GREEN I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is ine...
JOHN GREEN I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevole...
JOHN GREEN Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that i...
JOHN GREEN