John Humphrys Professions : Author Born : August 17, 1943 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by John Humphrys 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 sms vocabulary years Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently. John Humphrys skateboarding eye thinking 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 punctuation-marks daddy children The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons. The sort of people we've recruited - the best and the brightest - tended to come from universities and backgrounds where they're more likely to hold broadly liberal views than conservative. John Humphrys views people years It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen. John Humphrys radio real television It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven. John Humphrys proven journalist reports 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 today television Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors
