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A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That's journalism.

— Burton Rascoe Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1933)

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Source: As quoted in Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1933) edited by Tryon Edwards, C. N. Catrevas, and Jonathan Edwards
Work: Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations, 1933
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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