“Journalism is the first rough draft of history.”
-Philip Graham
Tag: Journalism
Wednesday Words – Nora Ephron
“A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, ‘Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,’ because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven’t produced anything, and that’s the end of the career.”
-Nora Ephron
Wednesday Words – Ghostbusters
“Between Jones’ exit from the table and Dippold’s arrival, this same male journalist — while manspreading in his chair, naturally — later comments that, even if a toy company did make figurines of the cast, “little boys would never play with female Ghostbusters action figures.”
Ah, yes. Thank you, Mr. Whoever You Are, for coming to set today and sharing your unsolicited wisdom about the intricacies of marketing — and for handily summing up the opinion of a small but vocal group of pimply basement-dwellers who have been condemning the all-female Ghostbusters since it was announced in January 2015.”
– Vanessa Golembewski, Refinery29, “It’s not a man thing, not a woman thing. It’s a Ghostbusters thing.”
Wednesday Words – Gwen Stefani
“Ms. Stefani, unguarded and reflective, spoke quickly in torrents of words, pausing only to sip tea from a cup that, like most of her décor, was black and white.”
– Caryn Ganz, The New York Times, Gwen Stefani Climbs Back From the Abyss
