Age Quote by George Packer

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

— Karl Kraus

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity…

— David Lehman

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

— Kingsley Amis

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

— Kingman Brewster, Jr

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of…

— Ben Huh

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

— Don Watson

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

— Hedrick Smith

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

— Ted Koppel

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

— Erin McKean

Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a…

— Amy Hempel

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

— David Ogilvy