Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all:… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
