News is something someone wants suppressed. Everything else is just advertising.
Lord Northcliff – Journalism
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson – Journalism
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life – what people are interested in. That’s journalism.
Burton Rascoe – Journalism
Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law.
Auberon Waugh – Journalism
I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people’s accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man’s failures.
Earl Warren – Sport, Newspaper
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.
G.K. Chesterton – Journalism and ethics
Journalism consists largely in saying ”Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord James was alive.
G.K. Chesterton – Role of Journalism
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
G.K. Chesterton – Journalism
Bad manners make a journalist.
Oscar Wilde – journalists
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde – Journalism, Ignorance
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
Mark Twain – Journalism
One crucial thing you need to understand about political journalists is that with some honorable exceptions, they don’t know or care about actual policy.
Paul Krugman – Political Journalists
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert Camus – Free Press, Journalism
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? …Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Oscar Wilde on Journalism
Rock journalism is people who cannot write interviewing people who cannot talk for people who cannot read.
