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Journalism Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
- Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
- Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
- Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
- Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It…
- If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but…
- Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism...
- The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably…
- If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
- The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of…
- If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison…
- I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
- I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
- Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
- As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums,…
- I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause…
- With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase…
- Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.
More Journalism Quotes
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- 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