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From: CCPA Monitor
Date: 20080601
Author:Anonymous

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times. One sometimes forgets which.

-James M Barrie.

Freedom of the press means freedom to print such of the publisher's prejudices that the advertisers don't object to.

-Hannen Swaffer.

I'm sure that, if I have any plans, the press will inform me.

-Arthur Scargill.

A journalist is a newspaperman out of a job.

-Elbert Hubbard.

The difference between literature and journalism is that literature is not read and journalism is unreadable.

-Oscar Wilde.

A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon,

A monthly scribbler of ...

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