“Nothing Sacred But the Truth” (New York Observer)

“Nothing sacred but the truth” is the slogan of the New York Observer, a weekly newspaper first published in 1987. The slogan has not been trademarked. The phrase “Nothing sacred but the truth” had been used sparingly in print and is cited from at least 1889.
 
   
Wikipedia: The New York Observer
The New York Observer is a weekly newspaper first published in New York City on September 22, 1987, by Arthur L. Carter, a very successful former investment banker with publishing interests. The Observer focuses on the city’s culture, real estate, the media, politics and the entertainment and publishing industries. Since July 2006 the paper has owned and published by the American real-estate mogul Jared Kushner.
 
New York (NY) Observer
“Nothing Sacred But the Truth”
 
Google Books
The kingdom of the unselfish: or empire of the wise
By John Lord Peck
New York, NY: Empire Book Bureau
1889
Pg. 16:
I come now to speak of Science, or the class of ideas that is most positive and reliable.
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Custom, law, precedent and convention are of no account to it, except as facts in themselves, or as indicating a certain amount of probability. It acknowledges nothing as beyond candid criticism; it has nothing sacred but the truth. It investigates every part of the universe and of man with equal impartiality, save that the most easily examined is the first to be made known. It has no mysteries but are free to any one who chooses to learn them. It depends only on observed facts and generalized laws, and these are what it recognizes as the only final authority.
 
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Complete Works
By François Villon
New York, NY: David McKay Company
1960
Pg. xi:
Is it not the truth? Everything else is an escape from the truth and by my mother’s memory there is nothing sacred but the truth.
   
Gawker
With Peter Kaplan’s Exit, a New York Media Era Closes
By Gabriel Snyder
Apr 22, 2009 6:43 PM
It’s as impossible to imagine the New York Observer without Peter Kaplan as it is to imagine him without a paper to edit. As he told Gawker, “I love my paper and my staff desperately.”
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The biggest task on Kushner’s plate when he became publisher — figuring out how to bring the paper into the Internet era — has also been his biggest failing. The paper has been crowing about its recent award nomination — on its site, the motto “Nothing sacred but the truth” has been replaced with the stirring “2009 Webby Nominee Best Newspaper Web Site” — but its recent redesign has made it virtually unnavigable.
 
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