Burlesque Quote by I. F. Stone

Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.

— Linda Ronstadt

I don't know what fun newspapers and magazines derive from interfering in people's private lives.

— Rishi Kapoor

Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you…

— Jarvis Cocker

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

— Paul Fussell

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

— Henry R. Luce

It's never really fun to be in the public spotlight.

— Boyan Slat

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

— Tom Wolfe

Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

— William Randolph Hearst

“It is easy for journalism to be morally casual, even as it makes large moral claims for itself. So when journalism is accused by…

— Ian Hargreaves

I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

— Helene Hanff

Journalists are like whores; as high as their ideals may be, they still have to resort to tricks to make money.

— Pierce Thorne