"When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."
— Journalism

January 1, 1970

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John B. Bogartto, New York Sun editor. Attributed in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition, 1992, p. 554. See also Man bites dog.