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Journalism is organized gossip.

Edward Egglestone

Journalism is the first rough draft of history.

Unknown

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

Rebecca West

We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.

Dave Barry

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Matthew Arnold

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

Dan Rather

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

Thomas Griffith

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

Julian Paul Assange

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

C.E.M. Joad

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Thomas Griffith

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

John Hersey

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

Ellen Goodman

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

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