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> #NormanMailer defined a pro as someone who can work on a bad day... The motto.. would be the timeless wisdom of Dr. Johnson: “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” A pro makes deadlines, and a pro makes compromises, too. A pro lives in real time in the real world and secretly relishes the constraints of the job. A pro’s greatest boast might be #AJLiebling’s: “I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”
JohnDec 17, 2022

#FreedomOfThePress is guaranteed only to those who own one
- #AJLiebling

http://mediashift.org/2014/12/what-freedom-of-the-press-means-for-those-who-own-one/

#media #massmedia #propaganda #censorship #freedom #democracy #capitalism

What Freedom of the Press Means for Those Who Own One - MediaShift

A renowned media critic sounded the alarm in 1960 about corporate takeovers of newspapers and layoffs of hundreds of journalists. He worried that the power of the press was being concentrated in too few hands. It was in his column in the New Yorker, The Wayward Press, that A.J. Liebling tossed off one of his …

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