Famous quotes containing the words television and/or journalist:
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxys edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create one world. Instead of one world, we have star wars, and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planets dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“Newspapermen are either drunkards or idealists, Miss Rutledge. Im afraid Im both. But however soiled his hands, the journalist goes staggering through life with a beacon raised.”
—Ben Hecht (18931964)