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Journalism Quotes by Dave Barry
- We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
- Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is…
- You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible…
- I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time…
- Here in the news media, our focus is on speed. When we get hold of some new and possibly inaccurate information, our highest priority is…
- This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to…
- A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been invited to. There…
- ...Terry Jackson, who is the Miami Herald's automotive writer and TV critic. That's correct: This man gets paid to drive new cars AND watch television.…
- As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."
- As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.
- For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first explain that .…
- One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal budget deficit, which…
More Journalism Quotes
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Journalism is literature in a hurry. — Matthew Arnold
- If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. — Julian Assange
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet.… — Margaret Atwood
- Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. — Russell Baker
- Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. — Russell Baker
- Serious journalism need not be solemn. — Russell Baker
- 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
- We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay… — Dave Barry
- I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. — Charles Baudelaire
- I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but… — Kate Adie
- The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of… — Carl Bernstein