Quotes about journalism and journalists




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"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

Arnold, Matthew on journalism and journalists
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"The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives -- has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."

Bernstein, Carl on journalism and journalists
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"A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling."

Bismarck, Otto Von on journalism and journalists    Share

"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on journalism and journalists    Share

"I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate."

Boswell, James on journalism and journalists    Share

"Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!"

Broun, Heywood on journalism and journalists    Share

"Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money."

Brown, Craig on journalism and journalists    Share

"Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on journalism and journalists
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"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on journalism and journalists
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."

Connolly, Cyril on journalism and journalists
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"He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn."

Davies, Robertson on journalism and journalists    Share

"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."

Duras, Marguerite on journalism and journalists    Share

"Journalism is organized gossip."

Eggleston, Edward on journalism and journalists
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"In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat."

Evans, Harold on journalism and journalists    Share

"It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist."

Geyer, Georgie Anne on journalism and journalists    Share

"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."

Greeley, Horace on journalism and journalists
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"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction."

Greene, Graham on journalism and journalists
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"If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter."

Hastings, Max on journalism and journalists    Share

"Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat -- no matter who killed the meat for him."

Hemingway, Ernest on journalism and journalists    Share

"Journalism is the entertainment business."

Herbert, Frank on journalism and journalists    Share

"Our job is like a baker's work -- his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on journalism and journalists    Share

"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies."

Kraus, Karl on journalism and journalists
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"Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes."

Kraus, Karl on journalism and journalists    Share

"Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one."

La Fontaine, Jean De on journalism and journalists    Share

"The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street."

Lamb, Charles on journalism and journalists    Share

"More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth."

Lapham, Lewis H. on journalism and journalists    Share

"The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on journalism and journalists    Share

"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one."

Liebling, A. J. on journalism and journalists    Share

"What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Street really is until it craps on you from a great height."

Livingstone, Ken on journalism and journalists    Share

"Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling."

Lyall, Gavin on journalism and journalists    Share

"If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist."

Mailer, Norman on journalism and journalists    Share

"Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse."

Malcolm, Janet on journalism and journalists    Share

"I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column."

Marquis, Don on journalism and journalists    Share

"The real news is bad news."

Mcluhan, Marshall on journalism and journalists    Share

"I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on journalism and journalists    Share

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