Journalism Quotes

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC o...

It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly r...

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissectin...

Fearlessness can be its own form of power.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what...

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth - truth which...

...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in parti...

I'm not involved, not involved," I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition...

How’s work?’ Martin asked. Behrouz was now a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, which these ...

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless...

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure...

Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an...

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

Suddenly I was tired of Lotterman; he was a phony and he didn't even know it. He was forever yapping...

We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I...

Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straig...

The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...

So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...

You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it does...

The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism abo...

In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened b...

The local liberal press, much molested by the censorship, had its courageous and skilful writers suc...

He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition ...

I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind o...

I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more...

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be a...

Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ...

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be a...

Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ...

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be a...

Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ...

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be a...

Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ...

Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every ...

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

The Post is famous for its investigative journalism. It pours energy and investment and sweat and do...

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, an...

I chiefly concern myself with those who seldom get a hearing, & I don't feel it is incumbent on me t...

The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the nam...

A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably...

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'offic...

We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and ...

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidd...

What makes Capa a great photo journalist?" asks a reporter covering a 1998 retrospective of his work...

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse'...

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how relia...

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalis...

Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, ...

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to...

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be serv...

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism ca...

The fault I find in our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality...

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviali...

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that ...

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of t...

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard...

One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workpl...

The working people of the Flint area hated this rag, but it was our only daily so you read it. Every...

I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead ...

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars...

Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (...

Is power like the vis viva and the quantite d’avancement? That is, is it conserved by the universe, ...

Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an...

Those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belo...

People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional de...

I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe.

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the lif...

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands ...

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulga...

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the ...

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,...

Political pundits are under professional obligation to regard the obvious as being too obvious.

(...) Taking the journalist's vow of impartiality and objectivity was not unlike joining an order of...

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the pa...

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just laz...

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ...

In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what h...

Why, sir, in the beginning we appointed all our worst generals to command the armies, and all our be...

Equal time is not necessary when dealing with evil. Nazis do not merit equal or fair treatment.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're ...

Journalism can be lethal

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wide...

I've always been fascinated by weather.

There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDAC...

Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Readin...

It's always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you're saying, especially wh...

There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a...

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat ...

But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who...