Journalism Quotes

738 Journalism quotes by 461 unique authors

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists. — Annalena McAfee
Always verify your references. — Martin Routh
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… — Peter York
If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we're not… — Peter York
With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the… — Stephen Daldry
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they… — Harry Allen Overstreet
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance. — Clifton Fadiman
Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by… — Alphonse de Lamartine
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… — Hunter S. Thompson
The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so… — Alec Soth
In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it." — Robert Reich
Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as… — Isaac D'Israeli
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? — Thomas Carlyle
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. — Thomas Carlyle
Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. — William Cowper
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree,… — William Cowper
None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing… — Henry Fielding
When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting… — Linda Ellerbee
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can… — Cyril Connolly
By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people… — Robert Motherwell
Journalism is organized gossip. — Edward Eggleston
If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of… — Walter Cronkite
The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know. — Walter Cronkite
As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way… — Walter Cronkite
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it. — Will Rogers

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