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Arthur Schopenhauer
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible. Thus it is that all journalists are, in the very nature of their calling, alarmists; and this is their way if giving interest to what they write. Herein they are like little dogs, if anything stirs, they immediately set up a shrill bark.

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  • Metcalfe, William Musham and Erskine, Ruaraidh , The Scottish Review Vol 1, Issue 1, (1990), p.273, A. Gardner