Quote#Wisdom
A dog biting a man is not news; a man biting a dog is distinctly news
Quote byAlfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe · 1865–1922
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Private letter to The Times (27 May 1919), quoted in Reginald Pound and Geoffrey Harmsworth, Northcliffe (1959), p. 729.
English (original)
A dog biting a man is not news; a man biting a dog is distinctly news.
— Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
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