(321 quotes found)
“Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.”
Horace Greeley
“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior”
Christina Baldwin
“Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.”
Rebecca West
“Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.”
Marguerite Duras
“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
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once”
Cyril Connolly
“The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it”
Alexander Cockburn
“Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Journalism is the entertainment business.”
Frank Herbert
“There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.”
Jef I. Richards
