The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business – advertisin… - Claud Cockburn

Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separated, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.

If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.

Since becoming a journalist I had often heard the advice to "believe nothing until it has been officially denied".