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'... are you sure it's all true?'
'I'm sure it's all journalism', said William. 'And what is that supposed to mean?' 'It means it's true enough for now.' (TT)
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The press waited. It looked, now, like a great big beast. Soon he'd throw a lot of words into it. And in a few hours it would be hungry again, as if those had never happened. You could feed it, but you could never fill it up. (TT)
There was always so much news going on you never had time to find out anything important. (JD)
She called it vamp-till-ready journalism, hanging back until the public position was overwhelming; in that way nobody would get into trouble with the public, or have nasty letters in their in-tray. (JD)
She called it vamp-till-ready journalism, hanging back until the public position was overwhelming; in that way nobody would get into trouble with the public, or have nasty letters in their in-tray. (JD)She called it vamp-till-ready journalism, hanging back until the public position was overwhelming; in that way nobody would get into trouble with the public, or have nasty letters in their in-tray. (JD)
'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,' said Ponder. I seriously think they think that it's their job to calm people down by first of all explaining why they should be overexcited and very worried.'
'Oh, yes, I know they do that,' said Glenda. 'How would people get worried if they weren't told how to be?' (UA) The pen might not be mightier than the sword, but maybe the printing press was heavier than the siege weapon. Just a few words can change everything ... (MR)
'Never talk to people who write things down.' (MR)
The lady in the boardroom was certainly an attractive woman, but since she worked for the Times Moist felt unable to award her total ladylike status. Ladies didn’t fiendishly quote exactly what you said but didn’t exactly mean, or hit you around the ears with unexpectedly difficult questions. Well, come to think of it, they did, quite often, but she got paid for it. (MM)
Mention has already been made of an attempt to inject a little honesty into reporting on the Disc, and how poets and bards were banned on pain of - well, pain - from going on about babbling brooks and rosy-fingered dawn and could only say for example, that a face had launched a thousand ships if they were able to produce certified dockyard accounts. (LF)
'I couldn’t tell you even if I knew, because of zer Freedom of zer Press.’
‘Freedom to pour oil on a flame, d’you mean?’ Vimes demanded. ‘That’s freedom for you,’ said Otto. No vun said it vas nice.' (Th) Rocky was supplying some sports news, and while it was unreadable to William he put it in on the basis that anyone keen on sport probably couldn’t read. (TT)
'People like to be told what they already know. Remember that. They get uncomfortable when you tell them new
things. New things…well, new things aren’t what they expect. They like to know that, say, a dog will bite a man. That is what dogs do. They don’t want to know that a man bites a dog, because the world is not supposed to happen like that. In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds.' (TT) …it’s always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you’re saying, especially when you half suspect it was a load of pigeon guano. And it’s worse when they are smiling. (GP)
'The right to free speech is an old Ankh-Morpork tradition.’
‘Good heavens, is it?’ ‘Yes, my lord.’ ‘How did that one survive?' (TT) |
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