Balloons Quote by Vera Brittain

“By focusing exclusively on the events of the day, journalism all but severs the connection between time and eternity. It makes the world appear…

— Craig M. Gay

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

— Tom Stoppard

Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.

— Jim Lehrer

Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In…

— Michael Medved

This isn't a dig on journalists, but people like to write about the 'death of blank.' The death of something.

— Sean Hayes

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of…

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

— Archibald MacLeish

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

“Journalism can be lethal”

— Robert Fisk

“Television news programs survive on scares. On local newscasts, where producers live by the dictum “if it bleeds, it leads,” drug, crime, and disaster…

— Barry Glassner

“Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. There's a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed…

— Judy Polumbaum