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is oppositional to power --- it is 'their' job to keep secrets, and 'our' job to find out about them.

It's their job to keep secrets. It's our job to find out about them.

is, in America, such that the President reigns for four years, but it governs for ever and ever.

In America the President reigns for four years, but Journalism governs for ever and ever.

is a creator of reality, but despite any intent on their part. Rather, officials lie to journalist and then believe these lies when they see them in print.

How is the world ruled and led to war' Diplomats lie to journalist and believe these lies when they see them in print.

is a field that forces us to re-examine the separation between author and reader.

is a field whereby extended quotations are disqualified and the audience is told what things mean.

In journalism the genre constraints are such that extended quotation is simply not allowed... journalist are paid to tell the audience what things mean, and editors are paid to police them, that is, to improve their prose so that it thusly functions' (Rabinow 2007:72)

is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds. Honore de Balzac

is a license to dabble at the margins of great writing, without the risks.

a license to dabble at the margins of great writing, without the risks.

is a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

Journalism is a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

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