As quoted in "Andrew Marr says bloggers are 'inadequate, pimpled and single' " in The Guardian (11 October 2010)
Context: The so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night.
It is fantastic at times but it is not going to replace journalism. … Most of the blogging is too angry and too abusive. Terrible things are said online because they are anonymous. People say things online that they wouldn't dream of saying in person.
Cut and Paste Journalism http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2006/01/cut-and-paste-journalism.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 16/01/2006
“Uneasy lies the head that ignores a telephone call late at night.”
The Business of Life (1949)
“Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.”
NPR Interview January 2007, regarding the use of camera phones in citizen-journalism http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/2007/01/06/father_of_the_camera.html.
“Jack Benny: We're a little late, so good night, folks.”
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
“Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.”
Der Erlkönig (1782)
Context: Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.
He holds the boy in the crook of his arm
He holds him safe, he keeps him warm.
“Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.”
Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 1, p. 10
As quoted in "Andrew Marr says bloggers are 'inadequate, pimpled and single' " in The Guardian (11 October 2010) http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/oct/11/andrew-marr-bloggers
