Quote by Toby Young Download Open image ““It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.”” — Toby Young ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.” — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.” — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“There is no room for passion in journalism—unless it is a passion for presenting the truth. Accurately, honestly, and unbiased.” — M.J. Summers Copy Share Image
“...when I was successful, but accused of arrogance, I wanted to drag every journalist who misunderstood to this place, and make them see that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets.” — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
“(...) Taking the journalist's vow of impartiality and objectivity was not unlike joining an order of monks and spending the rest of your life… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It seemed that the media pretty much controlled how the average person perceived the situation. We had little respect for journalists. Throughout my career,… — Duncan Falconer Copy Share Image
“the essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.” — William Manchester Copy Share Image
Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
The fact that I'm a Tory who hasn't worked at a university - at least, not since I taught at Cambridge in 1990 -… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call.… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
