“A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That's journalism.”

— Burton Rascoe

As quoted in Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1933) edited by Tryon Edwards, C. N. Catrevas, and Jonathan Edwards

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American writer 1892–1957

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