“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
“I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. . . . The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.”
William Butler Yeats
“Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.”
Dan Rather
“A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.”
Walter Lippmann
“The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.”
Thomas Griffith
“We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have to - we travel in fake ethics.”
Jon Stewart
“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.”
G. K. Chesterton
