In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time.  It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. — Mark Twain Happy 176th Birthday, Mark Twain! A few years ago, Mental Floss gathered a series of quotes and called it the Mark Twain School of Journalism. Among my favorites: Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish. — Michael Image: Detail from Time Magazine’s July 2008 cover.

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time.  It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. — Mark Twain

Happy 176th Birthday, Mark Twain!

A few years ago, Mental Floss gathered a series of quotes and called it the Mark Twain School of Journalism.

Among my favorites: Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish. — Michael

Image: Detail from Time Magazine’s July 2008 cover.

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