Lord Northcliffe
Lord Northcliffe
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffewas a British newspaper and publishing magnate. As owner of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror, and a pioneer of tabloid journalism, he exercised vast influence over British popular opinion...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPublisher
Date of Birth15 July 1865
Lord Northcliffe quotes about
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News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
superficial journalist loses
Never lose your sense of the superficial.
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Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
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It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.
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It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.
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Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.