Journalism Quotes · Page 39

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Finally, I applied to one of my roommates, more sagacious than the rest, for advice. Dave, I said. I’m broke and without…

— Phil Garlington

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Journalists...chronicle our everyday lives. They reveal truths and information that the public deserves to know, and they provide a record for posterity,…

— Celeste Ng

Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks…

— Dan Rather

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

— Howard Kurtz

If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s…

— Eve Arnold

One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes…

— Nicholas Kristof

We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.

— Ainsley Earhardt

I think we need to reckon in a very serious way with the emotional content of news and the way that people…

— Lydia Polgreen

It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism.

— Diana Rigg

“I'm not involved, not involved," I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was,…

— Graham Greene

I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.

— Morgan Neville

[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

— Princess Diana

It's important to remember that the future of quality journalism is not dependent on the future of newspapers. The discussion needs to…

— Arianna Huffington

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

— Mahatma Gandhi

the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about.…

— Jessica Mitford

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

— Matthew Arnold

The reason people get afraid of writing real, honest journalism and fiction, and the reason corrupted people and demagogues are afraid of…

— Nathan Englander

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

— Andrew Marr

“Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.”

— Jonathan Maberry

The Internet has essentially democratized the music industry in terms of what is popular and it's democratized the music journalism industry as…

— Anthony Fantano

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.

— Michael Pollan

I've been a performer in the public eye for many years now and it's much darker. It feels so worse now. It…

— Samantha Bee