But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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.
Thomas Jefferson
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
Cyril Connolly
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
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
The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.
Hugh Sidey
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
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
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Russel Lynes
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
Alexander Cockburn
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Lord Northcliffe
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.
Bob Greene
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
Thomas Griffith
I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
Henry R. Luce
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
[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
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great.
Walter Lippmann
Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.
Dan Rather
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
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding
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
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa
The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.
Gay Talese
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
H. L. Mencken
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
Thomas Griffith
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.
Henry R. Luce
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Norman Mailer
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
Burton Rascoe
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
Lewis H. Lapham
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
Jerry Seinfeld
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
Oscar Wilde
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
Horace Greeley
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold
As long as the family is interested in journalism, you're OK.
Stephen Lacy
The most-hated manager in British journalism.
David Montgomery
I've always said [this] is the lowest form of journalism, and I see my job is to be entertaining. And I guess it's my curse, because I did it in a different way, they kept making me do it again in a different way. ... [This book] is my tonic for a celebrity-crazed culture.
Bill Zehme
Journalism as theater [is what] TV news is.
Thomas Griffith
It's a functional test: Is what you are doing journalism?
Lauren Gelman
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Henry R. Luce
It's the most heavily sought-after award. It's the Oscar of broadcast journalism.
Doug Green
Her journalism represents the best principles in the field.
Karen List
We've made a commitment to do this type of journalism. I'm very proud of this staff. We'll do it again.
Ron Royhab
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
Richard Schickel
You can crush a man with journalism.
William Randolph Hearst
I have a built-in bias against reporters who have axes to grind. I think there are reporters that allow their own bias to encroach on their journalism, and that's a crime against journalism.
Don Hewitt
We want to allow for the idea that there are different kinds of journalism, ... The courts are just beginning to look at this issue.
Annalee Newitz
It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
Tom Brokaw
If I condone that kind of journalism, she's going to be in Iraq one day, so is that how she's going to prepare for something of importance?, ... If someone comes in and is not familiar with what I'm doing, then they're doing me a disservice and themselves and their readers.
Citizen Cope
Conventional journalism could no more reveal this war than conventional firepower could win it.
Michael Herr
Mike's decades of journalism experience make him an irreplaceable asset to our staff and to the community.
Pat Thomas
Access journalism has become the ends, not the means.
Todd Gitlin
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
Jim Hightower
I think the best of it is that journalism knows it has not done its best. That is new.
Jeff Jarvis
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
Rebecca West
All three of them have an incisive and distinctive edge to their journalism.
James Goldston
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
Andrew Sullivan
[As for the Discovery Channel, its] The Flight That Fought Back ... We think of this primarily as a work of journalism.
Phil Craig
Should be promptly dismissed for crimes against journalism.
Greg Mitchell
That's the nature of journalism. And it's the nature of combat, ... To criticize the media for covering combat in wartime is like criticizing the sun for coming up.
Clarence Wyatt
I read that, ... But I don't talk about journalism. It's not about me. It's about the writer.
Mark Morris
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
Ellen Goodman
The traditional role of journalism is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.
Tim Wulfemeyer
But, don't take anything out of context! That's bad journalism too!
Victoria Jackson
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
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
Christiane Amanpour
You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
Warren Ellis
The paper has been reviewed consistently back to at least the 1980s. This is a journalism class, and our expectation is that the newspaper's content will be reviewed by the adults in charge.
Gay Campbell
I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.
Maria Shriver
I am proud of journalists. Without journalism to hold the politicos' feet to the fire, how else can you hold these people accountable?
Milo Radulovich
Frank: All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Arthur: Christianity, of course, but why journalism?
Frank Harris
That was great. Terrible journalism, but what great television.
Gary Huggins
There is no journalism class, and there is no journalism club at Pine Crest.
Lourdes Cowgill
Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field.
Daniel Callahan
Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.
Craig Brown
Your job really, whatever you do in the field of journalism, is just to be fair. It's a very difficult balancing act, but one that must be done.
Rafael Sanchez
I was likened to Neville Chamberlain. I was a Quisling, to the (journalism) profession.
Matt Cooper
Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
Gerald Clarke
He was doing this gonzo journalism, which meant 'it's the way I see it -- and if the facts get in the way, well, we'll get rid of the facts ... ' He had a lot of fun with it and he'd liven up the bus or the airplane and we were always kind of glad to see him I think.
Bruce Morton
While he was a great man and did more for this continent in terms of journalism than anybody in history, like anyone he had flaws.
Salim Amin
All of journalism is a shrinking art, ... So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
Dick Schaap
It's not just about journalism, ... It's about police and crime, and it gives a picture of how these things work well or not well.
Justin Timberlake
I realize this is a tough time for journalism and for the magazine.
Roger Simon
Christianity naturally, but why journalism?
Arthur James Balfour
She is one of the smartest, most perceptive people we've had in journalism.
Ellen Mickiewicz
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