Today's Meditation

"Ah, ce métier où l'on passe la  moitié de sa vie à parler de ce qu'on ne connaît pas et l'autre moitié à  taire ce que l'on sait !''
               -- Henri Béraud, sur le journalisme

In other words ...

Ah, this trade where you spend half your life talking about things you know nothing about, and the other half suppressing what you do know!

Hat tip to Pauline Couture.

Comments

[Bill-Muskoka]

Telle est la nature même de l'existence!

[Antonia Z.]

Thanks to a reader who doesn't want credit, I have been told that Beraud was a Fascist, Nazi collaborating French journalist.

Just so we all know the context here.

I have to wonder what it was that Beraud thought was being supressed.

Out of context however, it is a good quote.

I have been pointed to this:
http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/asiplease1945.htm

[JDot]

In other words ...

"Ah, this trade where you spend half your life talking about things you know nothing about, and the other half suppressing what you do know!"

That is the truth