John Humphrys Quotes

• It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.

  John Humphrys

  Vocabulary, Years, Sms

  "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language" by John Humphrys, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 24, 2007.

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• If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim.

  John Humphrys

  Children, Punctuation Marks, Daddy

  "The end of the line?" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2008.

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• A lo largo de los años, la BBC ha tendido a ser más liberal que conservadora por todo tipo de razones perfectamente comprensibles. El tipo de personas que hemos contratado -los mejores y más brillantes- suelen proceder de universidades y entornos en los que es más probable que tengan opiniones liberales que conservadoras.

  John Humphrys

  Vistas, Años, Personas

  "John Humphrys: pro-Europe BBC shied away from immigration debate" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2014.

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• Piensa en lo mucho que el skate te abre los ojos para ver el mundo de otra manera.

  John Humphrys

  Eye, Thinking, Skateboarding

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• It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

  John Humphrys

  Real, Television, Radio

  2000 The Devil's Advocate.

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• It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

  John Humphrys

  Journalist, Reports, Proven

  2004 In the Sunday Times, 8 Feb.

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• The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad - it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

  John Humphrys

  Cynical, Television, Today

  "Savaging of 'seedy and cynical' TV" by Matt Wells, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2004.

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