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Journalism Quotes - Page 12

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

"Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.118, The Floating Press

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Jayson Blair (2004). “Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at the New York Times”, New Millenium

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist And The Murderer”, p.147, Granta Books

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

James Boswell, Marlies K. Danziger (1989). “Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795”, McGraw-Hill Companies

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

"How Katrina humbled the American news machine" by Jeff Jarvis, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2005.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

Do not read the newspapers.

Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.46, David M Gross