Journalism Quotes


Journalism is organized gossip. Edward Eggleston Journalism 226
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. Otto von Bismarck Journalism 198
The real news is bad news. Marshall McLuhan Journalism 194
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. Mark Twain Journalism 147
Journalism is literature in a hurry. Matthew Arnold Journalism 121
Journalism is an act of faith in the future Ann Curry Journalism 100
O jornalista um poeta delicado sempre acha o rascunho mais sincero do que o publicado. Mario Quintana Journalism 97
He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. Robertson Davies Journalism 96
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. Norman Mailer Journalism 91
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul. Richard Schickel Journalism 89
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. Charles Lamb Journalism 88
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. Bob Greene Journalism 88
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world. Harry Reasoner Journalism 83
...looking back has this journalism experience been a nightmare for you Not entirely. Did you enjoy any of it I liked going to the library he says. I think I prefer books to people primary sources scare me. Tom Rachman Journalism 80
Journalism is the entertainment business. Frank Herbert Journalism 80
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. Graham Greene Journalism 78
The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. William Pitt Journalism 75
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader Lionel Trilling Journalism 74
American journalism like the journalism of any other country is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous but its achievements are insignificant. H.L. Mencken Journalism 73
What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Street really is until it craps on you from a great height. Ken Livingstone Journalism 73
A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times? Bill Moyers Journalism 72
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does! Heywood Broun Journalism 71
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. Marguerite Duras Journalism 70
Journalism largely consists in saying Lord Jones is dead to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. G.K. Chesterton Journalism 69
I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to smack and quickly. Dan Rather Journalism 68
Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents. Peggy Noonan Journalism 68
The newspapers Sir they are the most villainous licentious abominable infernal Not that I ever read them no I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Journalism 66
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark. Arthur Schopenhauer Journalism 64
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. A. J. Liebling Journalism 63
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself. William Allen White Journalism 59
The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst they can sell more papers that way as one of them told me himself for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others. Margaret Atwood Journalism 58
I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. James Boswell Journalism 55
We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman. Daniel J. Boorstin Journalism 54
This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions; journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view. Christopher Essex Journalism 54
A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. Lord Northcliffe Journalism 53
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. Reinhold Niebuhr Journalism 53
News is only the first rough draft of history. Alan Barth Journalism 52
Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. Theres a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed of transmission are growing but the traditional gravity of news has eroded. Jin Yongquan Judy Polumbaum Journalism 52
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. Anthony Sampson Journalism 47
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. Georgie Anne Geyer Journalism 47
As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists.... Tom Rachman Journalism 45
Youre miserable edgy and tired. Youre in the perfect mood for journalism. Warren Ellis Journalism 44
I got addicted. News particularly daily news is more addictive than crack cocaine more addictive than heroin more addictive than cigarettes. Dan Rather Journalism 44
Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling. Gavin Lyall Journalism 44
The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party. Nora Ephron Journalism 43
Shall we go he murmured perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines. Jon Ronson Journalism 42
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. James Reston Journalism 41
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth. Dorothy Thompson Journalism 40
Once demagogy and falsehoods become routine there isnt much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidates mood. George Packer Journalism 40
I think I know what military fame is to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. William T. Sherman Journalism 40

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