When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

  • -- Carl Hiaasen 卡尔·希尔森

当你拿到一篇报纸专栏文章时,你并不是靠坐在栅栏上挠挠下巴,一边说“这个”,一边说“那个”来赚钱的。“你的意见是有报酬的。

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Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.

我们想要做的任何事情,无论是在报纸上读到的,在广播上听到的,还是通过口口相传得到的,当你到达那里的时候,其他所有的网络、有线电视台和脱口秀节目都已经在竞相报道了。

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

那些开始强制消除异见者的人很快就会发现自己在消灭异见者。强制的意见统一只能达到墓地的一致。

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

如果一个人还没有令人信服地发表意见,那么修改它就容易得多。

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

报人的能力也许比其他任何阶层的人都要高。