“WORD ON JOURNALISM–Friday, Feb. 16, 2007

On journalistic activism:

I’m an activist, and I’ll tell you why. If every citizen had to go through what we went through as reporters, going out and covering poor people, black people, murders, strikes, all that Dickensian underside of American life, they would become biased toward activism.”
    –John Chancellor, TV newsman, 1996 (1927-1996)

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Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff
Utah State University

“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” –Tom Stoppard, playwright