Journalism Quotes

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. (Frank Zappa)
Journalism is literature in a hurry. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. View quote
Cyril Connolly
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. View quote
Tom Stoppard
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. View quote
Oscar Wilde
As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. View quote
Walter Cronkite
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know. (Bob Woodward)
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism. View quote
Fred W. Friendly
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. View quote
Anthony Sampson
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. View quote
Marguerite Duras
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
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. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
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. View quote
Tom Stoppard
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us. View quote
Bob Woodward
The lowest form of popular culture-lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives-has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. (Carl Bernstein)
You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism. View quote
Julian Assange
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. View quote
Ellen Goodman
You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism. View quote
Warren Ellis
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper. View quote
Johannes V. Jensen