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The Difference Between Literature And Journalism Is That Journalism Is Unreadable And Literature Is Not Read.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is
unreadable and literature is not read.
-- Oscar Wilde
Related:
Journalism is literature in a hurry. -- Matthew Arnold
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar Wilde...
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything.
Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands....
Modern journalism by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "The Critic as Artist" (1891)...
Truth is never pure and rarely simple. Modern life would be tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.
-- Oscar Wilde...
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Yellow journalism is media ochre.