Quote of the Week – 15/02/12

“It is important that we do not jump to conclusions. Nobody has been charged with any offence, still less tried or convicted.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Week – 08/02/12

“A brilliant new-look Mirror website was launched early this morning… and then, as is traditional in digital publishing, promptly crashed.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Week – 01/02/12

“The Daily Mail is being far too modest… the runaway success of the website owes very little to piggy-backing on ‘the strengths of the newspaper’.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Week – 25/01/12

“What we took to be the marine’s finger proved, on closer inspection, to be another part of his anatomy.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Week – 18/01/12

“Piers Morgan is capable of remembering things that didn’t happen… perhaps his diaries weren’t written contemporaneously. There are a number of glaring errors. He has tea with the wrong prime mininster.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Week – 11/1/12

“Leveson is only gradually getting the hang of how newspapers work. He seems to think editors sit around all day worrying about ethics and aid to Haiti.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Week – 05/01/12

“Digital, sadly, remains a basketcase in Scotland – used as a fig leaf by most publishers to cover the embarrassment of their declining circulations and as a sop to keep management thinking titles remain on the cutting edge.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Year 2011

“The culture of greed and impunity we are witnessing on our TV screens stretches right up into corporate boardrooms and the Cabinet. It embraces the police and large parts of our media. It is not just its damaged youth, but Britain itself that needs a moral reformation.” Continue Reading

 

"You can’t photograph a flying bullet but you can capture genuine fear."


A 2007 quote from legendary war photographer Horst Faas, who died aged 79 last week.


(Source: Press Gazette)

 

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