Journalism Quote by Alain de Botton

“It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

“Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence — call it what you will — is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.”

— Matthew Flinders

“We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.”

— Marlena De Blasi

“The people's need to share has turned into a massive disease. It has taken them to the most private meaningless part of their lives.…

— Kambiz Shabankare

“Groupthink to the extreme, lots of microfocus on just pieces of the puzzle, and an orthodoxy that tries to suppress anything that could have…

— Bruce Buff

“Ordinary life rewards a practical, unintrospective outlook. There's too little time and too much fear for anything else. We let ourselves be guided by…

— Alain de Botton

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly…

— Carl Sagan

Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold…

— Tony Auth

“People don’t want the illusion of their manufactured personalities, their political saviors, shattered; personalities created by public relations industries. They don’t want to do…

— Chris Hedges

“On the contrary, we have a very deep-seated distrust of real intellectual effort (probably because we suspect that it will destroy, as I hope…

— James Baldwin

“I did not write this work merely with the aim of setting the exegetical record straight. My larger target is those contemporaries who --…

— Larry Laudan