Journalism Quotes
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
You can crush a man with journalism. (Quote by - William Randolph Hearst)
All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel. (Quote by - Ira Berkow)
Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. (Quote by - Art Buchwald)
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of bankrupt. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon, Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean, And furbish falsehoods for a magazine. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. (Quote by - Aneurin Bevan)
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. (Quote by - Marguerite Duras)
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes. (Quote by - Lemony Snicket)
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy. (Quote by - Harry A. Overstreet)
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Journalism is merely history's first draft. (Quote by - Geoffrey C. Ward)
Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)
Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied. (Quote by - Otto von Bismarck)
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. (Quote by - Napoleon)
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. (Quote by - David Brinkley)
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light. (Quote by - Hedda Hopper)
What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining. (Quote by - Mike Ditka)
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. (Quote by - Charles Anderson Dana)
Journalism is literature in a hurry. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. (Quote by - James Fenimore Cooper)
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence? (Quote by - Mary Clemmer Ames)
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination. (Quote by - Akbar S. Ahmed)
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people. (Quote by - Daniel Moynihan)
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
Harmony seldom makes a headline. (Quote by - Silas Bent)
I would . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said. (Quote by - Earl Bush)
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers. (Quote by - David Garrick)
They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
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. (Quote by - Abbie Hoffman)
You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting. (Quote by - Rose Maccaulay)
Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. (Quote by - William Randolph Hearst)
He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks; News from all nations lumbering at his back. (Quote by - William Cowper)
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. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day. (Quote by - Kingman Brewster, Jr.)
Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification. (Quote by - James Gordon Bennett)
Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. (Quote by - William Randolph Hearst)
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
No news is good news. No journalists is even better. (Quote by - Nicolas Bentley)
Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. (Quote by - Lord Northcliffe)
I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet. (Quote by - Tommy Docherty)
Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to. (Quote by - Hannen Swaffer)
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayadère of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising - only these stand a chance. (Quote by - Henry James)
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament; but in the reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. (Quote by - Junius)
To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame. (Quote by - Mary Clemmer)
Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. (Quote by - Bobby Knight)
Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. (Quote by - Anna Quindlen)
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. (Quote by - Frank Zappa)
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. (Quote by - Erwin Knoll)
Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it: A chield's amang you takin notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. (Quote by - Eric Sevareid)
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last. (Quote by - Maureen Dowd)
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides. (Quote by - Richard Cobden)
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. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. (Quote by - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck)
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 table, with different documents spread. (Quote by - Will Carleton)
A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance. (Quote by - Clifton Fadiman)
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. (Quote by - Ben Hecht)
Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
If it's called the USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday? BAM. Busted! (Quote by - Stephen Colbert)
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism. (Quote by - Hedrick Smith)
Journalism is organized gossip. (Quote by - Edward Egglestone)
Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. (Quote by - C.E.M. Joad)
Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers. (Quote by - Carl Rowan)
