Journalism Quotes - Page 6

• Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

  Marguerite Duras

  Moral, Impossible, Journalist

  Marguerite Duras (1997). “Outside”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spring, Editors, Able

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.205

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• The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread.

  Will Carleton

  Eye, Hands, Editors

  Will Carleton (1873). “Farm Ballads”, p.127

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• I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Drinking, Months

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.135, Algora Publishing

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

  Rebecca West

  Space, Challenges, Filling

  New York Herald Tribune 22 Apr. 1956, sec. 6, p. 2

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• The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

  John Gunther

  Essence, Want, Firsts

  John Gunther (1962). “A fragment of autobiography: the fun of writing the inside books”

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• If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Past, Cells, Years

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

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• 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

  Law, People, Rubbish

  Auberon Waugh, Anna Galli-Pahlavi (1985). “The diaries of Auberon Waugh, 1976-1985: a turbulent decade”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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• Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Writing, Literature

  Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 3

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• Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Business, Writing, Wheat Fields

  The Roycroft Dictionary of Epigrams (1914)

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• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Giving Up, Civilization, Dying

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• News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

  Christopher Lasch

  News, Advertising, Propaganda

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.521, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You can crush a man with journalism.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Crush, Men, Newspaper Reporters

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• Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

  Horace Greeley

  Media, Alive, Journalist

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• Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

  Stephen Fry

  Business, Thinking, People

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• The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dog, Money

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Mean, Tv News

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.219, Ballantine Books

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• You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

  Robert Breault

  Stories, Littles, Tvs

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• The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  News, Management, Empty

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Chapter I, 1688.

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• Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

  William Cowper

  And Love, Charity, Virtue

  William Cowper (1872). “Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems”, p.111

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• Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

  Andrew Vachss

  Hero, People, Protection

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• The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Ideas, Media, Lists

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• Newspapers should have no friends.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Friendship, Should Have, No Friends

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• Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Art, Literature, Needs

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• News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  News, Literature, World

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