Journalism is printing what someone else doesn't want printed. Everything else is public relations.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[rzemanfl]

1. An exclamation point is hard to click on. Please consider something longer. K&R n/t

[calimary]

2. Wow - that's a definite keeper!

What journalism shouldn't be, but has become.

[Denzil_DC]

3. Good quote, but it's not from Orwell.

Nobody knows for sure who originated it, but something similar has been dated back to 1918 and before: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/20/news-suppress/

I'm not enough of a pedant to care (and adding Orwell in there does add a handy tinge of 1984), but just thought I'd point it out.

[central scrutinizer]

4. "The job of the newspaper

Is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Finley Peter Dunne 1893