Famous Quotes about Journalism and Journalists (61 Quotations)

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

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official statement''; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as ''a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable.'' It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of ''well-informed circles.''

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

It was when ''reporters'' became ''journalists'' and when ''objectivity'' gave way to ''searching for truth,'' that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.

Journalism consists largely in saying ''Lord James is dead'' to people who never knew Lord James was alive.

Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Journalism is organized gossip.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.

Journalism is the entertainment business.

Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.

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

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.

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.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.