Journalism quotes
346 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost."
"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."
"The best fiction is far more true than any journalism."
"Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them."
"Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man."
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"Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach."
"Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one."
"The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies."
"A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling."
"Writers are always selling somebody out."
"Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right."
"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
"The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot."
"I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper."
"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long."
"Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego."
"The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business."
"American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor."
"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies."
"Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper"
"Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds."
"Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism."
"Serious journalism need not be solemn."
"The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal."
"An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite."
