Journal Quotes

You can crush a man with journalism.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

The press is the enemy.

Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant.

And that's the way it is.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Journalism is an act of faith in the future.

No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.