Excellent quote from George Orwell...

[Va Lefty]

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations."

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/26/1625332/-Abbreviated-pundit-round-up-Why-1984-still-matters-don-t-get-distracted-by-Trump-s-dead-cats

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Not Orwell

Quote Investigator: The earliest strongly matching expression found by QI was published in 1918 in a New York periodical called “The Fourth Estate: A Newspaper for the Makers of Newspapers”. The words were printed on a sign at a journalist’s desk, and no precise attribution was given. Boldface has been added to excerpts: 1

“Whatever a patron desires to get published is advertising; whatever he wants to keep out of the paper is news,” is the sentiment expressed in a little framed placard on the desk of L. E. Edwardson, day city editor of the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
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In 1979 a New York newspaper printed a variant of the expression that replaced “advertising” with “public relations”. The words were credited to the prominent journalist and author Malcolm Muggeridge: 23

Today’s thought: News is anything anybody wants to suppress; everything else is public relations. – Malcolm Muggeridge.

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By January 1999 a version of the saying was being connected to the famous author and essayist George Orwell in the pages of the New York Post: 27

George Orwell said that journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/20/news-suppress/

[Va Lefty]

2. Thanks, was going on Dailykos. Still relevant whoever said it.