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Letter "A" » accuracy
«The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.»
Author: Carl Bernstein
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
accuracy, blizzard, Business Today, compete, context, felony, frenzied, presented, quantity, splash, splashed, splashes, splashing, The News, thoroughness
«The game of life is like the game of boomerangs, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy»
Author: Florence Skinner
| Keywords:
accuracy, astound, astounded, astounding, astounds, boomerang, boomerangs, Game of Life, Return to, sooner or later, The Game of Life
«There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.»
Author: Jef I. Richards
| About:
Advertising,
Journalism
| Keywords:
A.D., accuracy, aspires, huge, journalism, news, regulated, regulates, regulating
«Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.»
«The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.»
Author: William Shawn
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities
| Keywords:
accuracy, devoted, journalistically, The New Yorker
«My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.»
«In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accuracy, conciseness, pointed, sacrificed
«Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accuracy, coloring, historian, penetration, quiescent, requisite, to the lowest degree
«Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.»
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