Journalism 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.

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.

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.

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.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.