Journalist Quote by Russell Baker Download Open image “Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.” — Russell Baker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Journalist Mind Persons Psychology
“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.” — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Do you know what a journalist is? Someone who hasn't written a novel yet.” — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into the journalist… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
No-deal Brexit could be Boris Johnson's biggest deception yet - worse than the Boris bus or the lies that had him sacked as a… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it. — Laurence Shames Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast. — Christopher Monckton Copy Share Image
