Journalism Quotes

• Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

  George Orwell

  Doe, Want, Publicity

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• News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

  Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

  News, Want, Advertising

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• Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

  Richard Summerbell

  Art, Definitions, Representing

  "Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary". Book by Richard Summerbell, 1985.

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• Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Business

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• A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

  Arthur Miller

  Inspiration, Talking, Newspapers

  In Observer 26 Nov. 1961

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• Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

  Amy Goodman

  Powerful, Responsibility, Helping Others

  "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media". Book by Amy Goodman, 2004.

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• Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Echoes, Faults, Triumph

  "WikiLeaks and the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity" by James Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2010.

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  If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Lying, Media

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• 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

  Echoes, Air, Faults

  "WikiLeaks and the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity" by James Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2010.

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• More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

  Henry Rollins

  Pockets, Seems

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• We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

  Dave Barry

  Objectivity, Literature, Littles

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• Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Media, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.71, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

  Anthony Shadid

  Art, Pieces, Incomplete

  "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.

  Carl Bernstein

  People, Challenges, Should

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• The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

  Bill Moyers

  Media, Democracy, Quality

  "Bill Moyer’s Speech – Nat’l Conf. for Media Reform". dailygrail.com. May 19, 2005.

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• Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

  Norman Mailer

  Forever, Facts, Stories

  Esquire, June 1960

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• Journalism is merely history's first draft.

  Geoffrey Ward

  History, Firsts

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• Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Editors, World, Able

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “The French Revolution: The Historian”, p.294, 北戴河出版

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• It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

  Tom Brokaw

  Fake People, Storytelling, Knows

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• 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

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• Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

  Walter Cronkite

  Objectivity, Magazines, Opinion

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• Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

  Amy Goodman

  Power, Government, Media

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• A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Calling, Journalist, Mistaken

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• People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Men, Yellow

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• Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

  Carl Bernstein

  Ordinary, Today, Garbage

  "An A-Z of cultural terms". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

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