Journalism Quotes - Page 6

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

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

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

There is no democracy without journalism.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

Journalism combines adventure with culture.

Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.