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A newspaper editor is like a hand moulded in glass. It has to balance many truths, be of many colours, transparent, yet truthful.
2007.09.21
1. “It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.”
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2. “If you always tell the truth you never have to remember what you said.”
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3. “The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.” Robert H. Jackson
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4. “Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.” Franklin D. Roosevelt (American 32nd US President (1933-45)
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5. “Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed”. Elbert Hubbard (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)
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6. I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one” Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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The Newspaper Editor
In a recent visit to Bath Aqua Glass, one of the few surviving glass works in the United Kingdom, I came across their Wall of Fame. It had many hands on it cast in glass. One of these attracted my attention. It was the hand of Sam Holiday, former editor of the local daily Bath newspaper The Bath Chronicle.
This newspaper produced its last daily issue today. Next week it will begin publishing a weekly paper. This is apparently the first time that a daily newspaper has transformed into a weekly format in the UK.
It seemed appropriate therefore to mark this occasion with a posting about press freedom and truth. I wish the Editor and his staff good luck in their new adventure and their comittment to continue championing the expression in their paper of a wide range of opinion from a "very opinionated city".
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Freedom Song from the movie Water
Today I decided that as winter is approaching and flowers are withering that I would change my avatar from a flower to an umbrelloid entity - something to brighten the dull skies.
In a recent visit to Bath Aqua Glass, one of the few surviving glass works in the United Kingdom, I came across their Wall of Fame. It had many hands on it cast in glass. One of these attracted my attention. It was the hand of Sam Holiday, former editor of the local daily Bath newspaper The Bath Chronicle.
This newspaper produced its last daily issue today. Next week it will begin publishing a weekly paper. This is apparently the first time that a daily newspaper has transformed into a weekly format in the UK.
It seemed appropriate therefore to mark this occasion with a posting about press freedom and truth. I wish the Editor and his staff good luck in their new adventure and their comittment to continue championing the expression in their paper of a wide range of opinion from a "very opinionated city".
Video
Freedom Song from the movie Water
Today I decided that as winter is approaching and flowers are withering that I would change my avatar from a flower to an umbrelloid entity - something to brighten the dull skies.
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I love the colors and the play of light on the glass....but most of all, I love your quotes! And I like your new avatar!
Carley · 2007-09-21: 23:37
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