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Bill Moyers gave a speech recently to a facility in Boston. In the first paragraph he quotes George Bernard Shaw as saying “journalists are seemingly unable to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.” A visit to google did not turn up the context of the quote. It did turn up some good quotes about Journalism.
Meanwhile, dangerousminds (spell check suggestions:endangerment,Dangerfield) has an interview with Brian Eno. (spell check suggestion:Ono) He is promoting some product. In the course of the chat, Mr. Eno begins to discuss copyright law. No, he doesn’t discuss, he quotes chapter and verse for over a minute. It seems like a 13yo was downloading product, and the lawyers wanted to sue. Mr. Eno chose to have his roadies smash the kid’s bike, while he was still on it.
To hear some whiners, to cheat an artist out of royalties is the collapse of civilization. The answer in this case was a bicycle accident.
The interview is fun for a couple of more reasons. The interrogator is a man using the name “Dick Flash”. Mr. Flash seems to be a man of a certain age, hiding the onslaught of time with hair chemicals(or a rug). Mr. Eno, on the other hand, seems comfortable with going bald. He is the master of synthetics and studio trickery for music, but in real life a proud chrome dome.
Eno is part of a three letter combination that is incredibly anagram friendly. Eno, Eon, Neo, Noe, One, Oen. Only the last is not a name or word, and there is no doubt an organization with those intitials.






The search for context about George Bernard Shaw and Journalism did not yield a source for the quote. ( PG, who does have a life, did not go past page two of Google) It did yield a multitude of quotes about Journalism. While preparing the list of quotes for publication, PG was aware of the rule of quotes. When one is compiling a list of quotes, you need at least one Mark Twain and one Oscar Wilde. After a few minutes of copy paste, the Oscar Wilde appeared, and below that was the quote by George Bernard Shaw that started this ordeal. The source for the GBS quote is “Ingelhart, Louis E. (1998). Press and speech freedoms in the world, from antiquity until 1998: a chronology. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. pp. p. 183.” Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones Dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.— G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown//It’s all storytelling, you know. That’s what journalism is all about.— Tom Brokaw//Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.— Frank Zappa, in Linda Botts, Loose Talk// Journalism is literature in a hurry.— Matthew Arnold//Knowing what goes on in the world by reading a newspaper is like telling time using the second hand of a watch.– Unknown //Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.— Charles Anderson Dana// Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war; you go into battle not when you are ready but when action offers itself.— Norman Mailer, The Presidential Papers//War correspondents … see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.— Margaret Bourke-White//Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.— John Hersey//Life is bad fiction — Unknown// A journalist is stimulated by a deadline; he writes worse when he has time.— Karl Kraus//News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read. And it’s only news until he’s read it. After that it’s dead. — Evelyn Waugh, 1938//When journalese was at its rifest the Ministry of Health was established – possibly a coincidence. — John Galsworthy, 1924// Never forget that if you don’t hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. — Arthur Brisbane, c. 1900//A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There’s nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I’ve done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom – it’s gone. — Edward R. Murrow, December 31, 1955// Journalists say a thing that they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep saying it long enough it will be true. — Arnold Bennett, 1918//A newspaper is known by the columnists it keeps. — Irvin S. Cobb//In the real world, the right thing never happens at the right place and at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. — Mark Twain// Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible. Thus it is that all journalists are, in the very nature of their calling, alarmists; and this is their way if giving interest to what they write. Herein they are like little dogs, if anything stirs, they immediately set up a shrill bark.— Arthur Schopenhauer// Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. — Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary of Epigrams (1914)//For most of the history of American journalism, the independence and high quality of the American press have been tied … to the commercial spirit and the need to offer his money’s worth to a purchaser in the open market. — Daniel J. Boorstin// So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here—not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72// Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. — Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816//In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom from the press. — Martina Navratilova//The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. — George Mason, principal author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)// Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact, – very momentous to us in these times. — Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History (1859)//There is simply no telling in advance which of us will stumble upon true news and valuable thought. The dirty secret of our business is that we are not, after all, journalists, only scavengers. — The New York Times, Editorial (1981)// If somebody came from Mars to America and went around for months or years, and then you asked them who has the best jobs, they would say the journalists, because the journalists get to make momentary entries into people’s lives when they are interesting, and get out when they cease to be interesting. — Bob Woodward, 2003//In America the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs forever and ever.— Oscar Wilde// Journalists are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. — George Bernard Shaw//Provided I do not write about the government, religion, politics, morals, people in power, official institutions, the Opera, the other theatres, or about anybody attached to anything, I am free to print anything, subject to the inspection of two or three censors. — Pierre Beaumarchais// They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. — James G. Watt//I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as President. — Jimmy Carter//To tell the truth you have to write fiction. — Unknown //Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. — Adlai Stevenson III// If a newspaper prints a sex crime, it’s smut, but when the New York Times prints it, it’s a sociological study. — Adolph S. Ochs//If Christ came back to earth now he would not attack the high priests, but the low journalists. — Søren Kierkegaard//I don’t so much mind that newspapers are dying — it’s watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. — Molly Ivins//In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. — Paul Eldridge// This entertainment needs another section to come out as a six stripe rainbow. Before the widespread use of color, newspapers were black and white and read all over. Yellow journalism, written for the almighty green, has made many a man blue. Pictures are from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”.