Quotes about journalism and journalists




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"Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents."

Noonan, Peggy on journalism and journalists    Share


"A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand."

Northcliffe, Lord on journalism and journalists    Share

"I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry."

O'Rourke, P. J. on journalism and journalists    Share

"The press is like the air, a chartered libertine."

Pitt, William on journalism and journalists    Share

"Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets."

Priestland, Gerald on journalism and journalists    Share

"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."

Reston, James on journalism and journalists    Share

"In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation."

Sampson, Anthony on journalism and journalists    Share

"Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on journalism and journalists    Share

"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."

Stoppard, Tom on journalism and journalists
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"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -- including me -- would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."

Thompson, Hunter S. on journalism and journalists
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"In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that."

Twain, Mark on journalism and journalists
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"The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself."

White, William Allen on journalism and journalists
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"It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes."

Wilde, Oscar on journalism and journalists    Share

"Bad manners make a journalist."

Wilde, Oscar on journalism and journalists    Share

"You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to."

Wolfe, Humbert on journalism and journalists    Share

"I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth."

Yeats, William Butler on journalism and journalists    Share

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."

Zappa, Frank on journalism and journalists
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