Journalism Quotes - Page 3

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

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

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

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

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

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.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.

If you're in Journalism and you're looking for friends, you should get a dog.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

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.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.