A help wanted add for a photo journalist asked the rhetorical question:

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save
a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning
photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?
		-- Paul Harvey
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A Hen Brooding Kittens
	A friend informs us that he saw at the Novato ranch, Marin county,
a few days since, a hen actually brooding and otherwise caring for three
kittens!  The gentleman upon whose premises this strange event is transpiring
says the hen adopted the kittens when they were but a few days old, and that
she has devoted them her undivided care for several weeks past.  The young
felines are now of respectable size, but they nevertheless follow the hen at
her cluckings, and are regularly brooded at night beneath her wings.
		-- Sacramento Daily Union, July 2, 1861
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	A journalist, thrilled over his dinner, asked the chef for the recipe.
Retorted the chef, "Sorry, we have the same policy as you journalists, we
never reveal our sauce."
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A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed
on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new
game.  Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the
pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly
along it at the water's edge.  Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their
heads in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turn
around and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite
direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match.  Then, the
paper reports "The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin
colony and overfly it.  Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins
fall over gently onto their backs.
		-- Audobon Society Magazine
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A New Way of Taking Pills
	A physician one night in Wisconsin being disturbed by a burglar, and
having no ball or shot for his pistol, noiselessly loaded the weapon with
small, hard pills, and gave the intruder a "prescription" which he thinks
will go far towards curing the rascal of a very bad ailment.
		-- Nevada Morning Transcript, January 30, 1861
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A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
		-- Arthure "Bugs" Baer
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
		-- Thomas Jefferson
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All newspaper editorial writers ever do is come down from the hills after
the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
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An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.
		-- Adlai Stevenson
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"... And remember: if you don't like the news, go out and make some of
your own."
		-- "Scoop" Nisker, KFOG radio reporter Preposterous Words
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And that's the way it is...
		-- Walter Cronkite
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Earth Destroyed by Solar Flare -- film clips at eleven.
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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that
rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
		-- Erwin Knoll
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FLASH!
Intelligence of mankind decreasing.
Details at ... uh, when the little hand is on the ....
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... Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror,
and you would not have been informed.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
		-- Will Rogers
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I read the newspaper avidly.  It is my one form of continuous fiction.
		-- Aneurin Bevan
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I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens
who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known
something of what has been passing in their time.
		-- H. Truman
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If I were to walk on water, the press would say I'm only doing it
because I can't swim.
		-- Bob Stanfield
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If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist, he'll get rich,
or famous or both.
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In a medium in which a News Piece takes a minute and an "In-Depth"
Piece takes two minutes, the Simple will drive out the Complex.
		-- Frank Mankiewicz
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Isn't it conceivable to you that an intelligent person could harbor
two opposing ideas in his mind?
		-- Adlai Stevenson, to reporters
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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
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
		-- Matthew Arnold
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Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who
can't talk for people who can't read.
		-- Frank Zappa
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My father was a God-fearing man, but he never missed a copy of the
New York Times, either.
		-- E. B. White
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
		-- Sam Brown, "The Washington Post", January 26, 1977
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