Karl Kraus Quotes About Journalism

Quotes about: Journalism

• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Skills, Ideas

• If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

  Karl Kraus

  Lying, Imagination, Journalism

• To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

  Karl Kraus

  Essence, Ideas, Able

• News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Two, People

• There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

  Karl Kraus

  Clerks, Journalism, Shortage

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

  Karl Kraus

  Journalism, Missions, Intellect

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

  Karl Kraus

  Journalism, Prophet, Historian

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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