One definition for news
September 4, 2008 2:21 PM   Subscribe

Some journalist once said something to the effect of, "What happened today that didn't happen yesterday. That's what news is. Start typing." Who was the journalist, and what was the exact quote?

This link attributes the quote to Raymond Coffey, Washington bureau chief for Tribune, but that's the only sourcing I can find for that claim, and it seems thin. (Coffey certainly might have said it, but that article turns up as the only mention of that quote on Google, so I'm suspicious.)
posted by grrarrgh00 to Media & Arts (2 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
If you do a broader search, you get other versions of the quote also attributed to Coffey, and some that aren't.
posted by Sidhedevil at 2:48 PM on September 4, 2008


Response by poster: The first link there is a version of the one I posted. But all told, I'm only finding 6 results on Google for this quote right now, which leads me to believe I have it wrong. I think if I had the right quote, better attribution for the source would follow.
posted by grrarrgh00 at 3:00 PM on September 4, 2008


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