Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
~Aaron McGruder

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
~George Orwell

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
~Arthur Miller

EndQuote:
The crux is not the publisher’s freedom to print; it is rather, the citizen’s right to know.
~Arthur Hays Sulzberger

 

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Exercise Prompt for 03/22:  travel

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The World Health Organization has announced that dogs cannot contract Covid-19. Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released. To be clear, WHO let the dogs out.
~Hans Stroo, Coronapocalypse

 

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Posted from the Grove

On Writing:
Six by Judy Blume to Make You a Better Writer
https://writingcooperative.com/6-quotes-by-judy-blume-to-make-you-a-better-writer-62745b11b203

One by Hemingway More Useful Than Five by Any Other
“The best way is to always stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.”

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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
~John Hersey

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.
~Seno Gumira Ajidarma

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
~Oscar Wilde

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A Song (Title) For The Times:
~Hues Corporation:  Rock The Boat   (3:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvq74JbuwOI

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You can crush a man with journalism.
~William Randolph Hearst

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
~Napoleon

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Vimeo Video:
War Authority   (6:50)
https://vimeo.com/191688688

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Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
~Henry Anatole Grunwald

Journalism is an act of faith in the future.
~Ann Curry

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If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event… what kind of film would you use?
~Author Unknown

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: “President Can’t Swim.”
~Lyndon B Johnson

That ephemeral sheet,… the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
~Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
~William Tecumseh Sherman

The newspaper is the second-hand in the clock of history; and it is not only made of baser metal than those which point to the minute and the hour, but it seldom goes right.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

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Job’s Struggle, by William Blake

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
~Cyril Connolly

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
~Ellen Goodman

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
~Matthew Arnold

The first rough draft of history.
~Ben Bradlee

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@Writers Platform

Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.
~Horizon, “Electronic Frontier”

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
~Karl Kraus

Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
~Elbert Hubbard

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Exercise Prompt:  splinter

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~BarTalk:
prophylaxis: penn ave

paper-mâché for a throne
sunday comics for a crown
self-imposed ignorance
brings it all down

internecine the warfare
splintered factions abound
if loyalty is two way
poser is three ways undone

in a crisis of his making
loud wailing the sound
postpone the elections
when the good go to ground

righteous rioting follows
when no solution is found
martial law is the answer
as impostors crave the crown

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Tanka x 3

work and love and play
splinters of reality
pains wanting pleasure
bitch and moan against the sin
healthy yogurt for dessert

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black tormented clouds
jagged bolts crack wide the world
splinter the silence
render the sky brilliant
storm’s deep end of excitement

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a premature death
throes of incomprehension
splinter into grief
harrowing cries for revenge
lose count and the war moves on

 

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If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
~Author unknown

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
~Harold Evans

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
~Tom Stoppard

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Curated by: Wordgrove

 

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