“Bad manners make a journalist.”
Oscar Wilde
“Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”
“There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”
“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read”
“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.”
“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever”
“Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law”
Auberon Waugh
