James Cameron (journalist) Quotes

Mark James Walter Cameron CBE was a prominent British journalist, in whose memory the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture is given. Wikipedia

✵ 17. June 1911 – 26. January 1985

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“It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.”

James Cameron (journalist)

The Encarta Book of Quotations (2000), p. 173 http://books.google.com/books?id=Af84fBmzmVYC&q=%22It+was+long+ago+in+my+life+as+a+simple+reporter+that+I+decided+that+facts+must+never+get+in+the+way+of+truth%22&pg=PA173#v=onepage <br class="br">Attributed

“That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.”

James Cameron (journalist)

The News Chronicle, March 3, 1954.

“Muslims shared many of the deep-seated characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon elite—an intuitive resentment of culture, an amicable contempt for women, a proclivity for riding about on horses, a pleasure in discipline, and a covert homophilia.”

James Cameron (journalist)

from … "a book about India", quoted in an article by Roger Sandall http://www.rogersandall.com/nihilism-in-the-middle-east/ <br class="br">Attributed

“Much of my life seems in retrospect to have been spent in the company of putative national leaders passing through the process of being denounced and imprisoned for sedition, as part of the inevitable progression towards the Prime Ministership and the ritual tea-party at Windsor Castle.”

James Cameron (journalist)

Point of Departure (London: Arthur Barker, 1967) p. 295.

“The fabulous Eva, Government Glad-Hand Girl No. 1 of the extravagant political novelette that is Argentina.”

James Cameron (journalist)

The Daily Express, March 17, 1949.

“I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.”

James Cameron (journalist)

The News Chronicle, February 22, 1957.

James Cameron (journalist) Quotes

“When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long.”

James Cameron (journalist)

The News Chronicle, November 14, 1956

“NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Where else but in Texas would men set up to administer space?”

James Cameron (journalist)

Cameron Country, broadcast on BBC TV, July 12, 1969.

“I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings.”

James Cameron (journalist)

The Best of Cameron (Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1981) p. 49. ISBN 0450048810.

“The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask.”

James Cameron (journalist)

Cameron Country, broadcast on BBC TV, July 12, 1969.

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