Journalism Quotes by Karl Kraus

“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.”

— Karl Kraus

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

— Karl Kraus

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

— Karl Kraus

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

— Karl Kraus

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

— Karl Kraus

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

— Karl Kraus

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

— Karl Kraus

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

— Karl Kraus

The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or…

— Karl Kraus

The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day…

— Karl Kraus

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline:…

— Karl Kraus

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

— Karl Kraus

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs…

— Karl Kraus

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The…

— Karl Kraus

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

— Karl Kraus