{"id":2,"date":"2010-09-17T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T19:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-01-24T19:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T02:08:36","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soul Snatcher, Productions<\/strong>\u00a0(aka: the\u00a0Mason County Mercury <\/strong>(tm), an independent producer of adversarial journalism) is about video-taping events, investigatory photojournalism, news gathering, public events\/venues, independent reporting, editing them into broadcast quality submissions for cable TV, Youtube, blip, websites, and public dissemination. We will also document depositions and craft visual aids\/video for evidence presentations at trial.<\/p>\n

Amicus Curia, investigative photojournalist pic<\/a><\/p>\n

“Journalism is printing what someone doesn’t want published. Everything else is public relations.”<\/em> -G. Orwell-<\/p>\n

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Riddle me this: Are there toilets in Heaven?<\/p>\n

If not Heaven, you can reach me at (360)427-3599 or by e-mailing: pinbalwyz@yahoo.com<\/p>\n

or check out our sponsor’s website and services at:<\/p>\n

Click HERE for amicuscuria.com website & services<\/a><\/p>\n

15 Quotes to Inspire Journalists:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNews is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising. The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don\u2019t print matter a lot.\u201d
\n\u2013 Katharine Graham<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to find litanies of the things wrong with journalism today or the treatises of rumors and reasons it\u2019s dying. This isn\u2019t one of those lists. Instead, here\u2019s a collection of quotes to inspire journalists and pay homage to those forging the future.<\/em><\/p>\n

As you read these, feel free to replace newspaper with website and print with post, and so on. Think less about the specific word choice and more about the underlying truth.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cJournalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you\u2019re at it.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Horace Greeley<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Arthur Miller<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cJournalism can never be silent: That is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Henry Anatole Grunwald<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBad things don\u2019t happen to writers; it\u2019s all material.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Garrison Keillor<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI do not agree with what you have to say, but I\u2019ll defend to the death your right to say it.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Voltaire (attributed to)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Tom Stoppard<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWriting well means never having to say, \u2018I guess you had to be there.\u2019 \u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Jef Mallett<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe less you know, the more you believe.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Bono<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFar and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Theodore Roosevelt<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cRead, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Christopher Morley<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWriting gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it\u2019s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 David Sedaris<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Henry Luce<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe future does not fit in the containers of the past.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Rishad Tobaccowala<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIn times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Eric Hoffer<\/em><\/p>\n

“Journalism is just literature in a hurry.”–Matthew Arnold<\/p>\n

“Journalism is the way you want to shape the world with accurate information, depending on your mission.” –Howard Mlozi<\/a>–<\/p>\n

“God is dead!” -Nietzsche-
\n“Nietzche is dead!” -God-
\n“I want more life, Fucker!” -Blade Runner-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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