The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 2014)
“Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.”
William Zinsser (1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 9, Nonfiction as Literature, p. 61.
“Controversy… What Controversy?”
Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
Humorous lines of various advertisements for the film, some showing doctored pictures of Moore walking hand in hand with George W. Bush.
2004, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
“Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.”
Donna Tartt book The Secret History
Source: The Secret History
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) American artist
Source: 1950s, The painter and the audience' (1954), pp. 109-110
May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist
“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
“When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?”
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way, — and the fools know it.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Context: Do you think I don't understand what my friend, the Professor, long ago called the hydrostatic paradox of controversy?
Don't know what it means? - Well, I will tell you. You know, that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way, — and the fools know it.
