But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. Oscar Wilde
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits. Stephen Leacock
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Journalistic hours are odd and long and often tense, and newsmen seek each other out as natural allies in a world that is so much part of them, but which they visit so randomly. Osborn Elliott
Journalistic hours are odd and long and often tense, and newsmen seek each other out as natural allies in a world that is so much part of them, but which they visit so randomly.
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. Archibald Macleish
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. Joseph Campbell
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. Russel Lynes
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. Alexander Cockburn
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. Bob Greene
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality. Thomas Griffith
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele. Bagdikian's Observation
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.
[Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated, fails to get the story but delivers instead a stylishly bizarre account that mocks conventional journalism. R. Z. Sheppard
[Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated, fails to get the story but delivers instead a stylishly bizarre account that mocks conventional journalism.
Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance. Dan Rather
Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Aleister Crowley
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. Amy Vanderbilt
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. Frank Zappa
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
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. Ben Hecht
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.
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. Jimmy Breslin
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
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