Journalism Quotes

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Walter Lippmann

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Archibald MacLeish

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism

Graham Greene

Journalists say a thing that they know is not true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Enoch Arnold Bennett

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

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Dave Barry

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's ultimate purpose [is] to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Matthew Arnold

Are you asking me while I am under complete siege? You are a wonderful journalist. You have to respect your profession. You have to be accurate when you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. Be quiet! You are covering, with such questions, the terrorist activities of the Israeli occupation and the Israeli crimes. Be fair! Why do you make these certain mistakes? Thank you. Bye, bye!

Yasser Arafat

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

P.J. O\'Rourke

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

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

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

Thomas Griffith

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

Frank Zappa3

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