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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another..

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Ellen Goodman

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

G.K. Chesterton

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.

Rebecca West

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Matthew Arnold

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

Hedrick Smith

You can crush a man with journalism.

William Randolph Hearst

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

C.E.M. Joad

Journalism - a profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Lord Northcliffe

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law

Auberon Waugh

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Matthew Arnold

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space

Rebecca West

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon

Tom Stoppard

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Cyril Connolly

Journalism is the first rough draft of history.

Unknown

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read

Oscar Wilde

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

Dino Buzzati

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read

Frank Zappa3

I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.

Larisa Alexandrovna

I will pass over my flirtation with journalism as a way of making a living, an idea I dropped when I discovered that in the fifties unlike now female journalists always ended up writing the obituaries and the ladies' page. But how was I to make a living? There was not a roaring market in poetry, there, then. I thought of running away and being a waitress, which I later tried, but got very tired and thin; there's nothing like clearing away other people's mushed-up dinners to make you lose your appetite

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

Thats arguably what spy agencies do high-tech investigative journalism. Its time that the media upgraded its capabilities along those lines.

Julian Paul Assange

It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.

Julian Paul Assange

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