People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
Lewis H. Lapham – Journalism
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.
Samuel Johnson – Journalism
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.
Walter Lippmann – Journalism
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
Will Rogers – Journalism
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
Oscar Wilde on reign of journalism
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
Ellen Goodman – Journalism
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
John Hersey – Journalism
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
Henry Anatole Grunwald – Journalism
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
Rebecca West – Journalism
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.
Marguerite Duras – Journalism
Journalists are like whores; as high as their ideals may be, they still have to resort to tricks to make money.
Pierce Thorne – Journalism
Journalists say a thing that they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
Arnold Bennett – Journalism
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.
Tom Stoppard – Journalism
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly – Journalism
News is something someone wants suppressed. Everything else is just advertising.
