--- title: "4 New Journalism Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 4 New Journalism quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best New Journalism sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/309/peter-york-10981_19th-century_i-cling-to-the-basic-set-of-tenets-laid_891418.png" --- > [I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-york/i-cling-to-the-basic-set-of-tenets-laid-out-in-tom-wolfe-s-new/) [Peter York](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-york/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/309/peter-york-10981_19th-century_i-cling-to-the-basic-set-of-tenets-laid_891418.png) > [God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-wolfe/god-newspapers-have-been-making-up-stories-forever-this-kind-of/) [Tom Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-wolfe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a87/tom-wolfe-2191_fooling-around_god-newspapers-have-been-making-up-stori_1393434.jpg) > [I have no idea who coined the term 'the New Journalism,' or when it was coined. I have never even liked the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-wolfe/i-have-no-idea-who-coined-the-term-the-new-journalism-or-when-it-was/) [Tom Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-wolfe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/tom-wolfe-2191_any_i-have-no-idea-who-coined-the-term-the-n_2974117.jpg) > [“It just got ugly in the 1970s for New Journalism, hastened by the decline of general interest magazine. So what happened? Television,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-weingarten/it-just-got-ugly-in-the-1970s-for-new-journalism-hastened-by-the/) [Marc Weingarten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-weingarten/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/marc-weingarten-259355_end-of-life_it-just-got-ugly-in-the-1970s-for-new-jo_3017370.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/new-journalism/#itemlist", "name": "New Journalism Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. 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