Journalism Quotes

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Warren Buffett

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

Rebecca West

You cant publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

Julian Paul Assange

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Thomas Griffith

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

Ellen Goodman

Journalism is organized gossip.

Edward Egglestone

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

John Hersey

Journalism is organized gossip.

Edward Eggleston

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.

Burton Rascoe

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great

Walter Lippmann

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

Lewis H. Lapham

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

Cyril Connolly

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

Tom Stoppard

Journalists are like whores; as high as their ideals may be, they still have to resort to tricks to make money

Pierce Thorne

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

Henry R. Luce

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.

Jef I. Richards

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Oscar Wilde

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it

Alexander Cockburn

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them

Adlai E. Stevenson

Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

Dan Rather

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