What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power. — Amira Hass
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. — Arthur Miller
A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment. — Richard Cobden
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus
News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads. — William Randolph Hearst
Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow. — Fuzzy Zoeller
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. — Spiro T. Agnew
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead. — Ernest Bevin
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. — Arthur Baer
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. — Henry Anatole Grunwald
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw
Short Newspapers Journalism Quotes
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. — Julian Assange
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. — Malcolm X
Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.' — Al Capone
God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne. — Billy Graham
I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper. — Lotte Reiniger
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible. — Karl Barth
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. — Joseph Pulitzer
If I read the newspaper I come out dirtier than I went in. If I read my Bible, I come out cleaner than I went in, and I like being clean! — Smith Wigglesworth
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. — Thomas Jefferson
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. — Helen Rowland
Newspaper Article Quotes
We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension. — Norman Lear
I grew up in a family where no one had written a newspaper or magazine article about anybody in my family for a hundred years, right? — Michael Saylor
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses. — Calvin Trillin
Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening. — Gavin MacLeod
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures. — Boss Tweed
I thought, Hey, maybe these people shouldn't be making up holidays to drink more. Maybe if they drank less they might be able to title their newspaper articles more specifically. For example, I would title this last article "Drunk Driver Hits Drunk Walker Drunkety-Drunk I'm So Drunk." — Mike Birbiglia
The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing...There is no propaganda as long as one makes use, in a sporadic fashion and at random, of a newspaper article here, a poster or radio program there. — Jacques Ellul
The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers. — Susanna Moodie
The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them. — Floyd Abrams
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book. — Jackie Collins
Journalism Quotes
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all — Lala Lajpat Rai
Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine! — Benito Mussolini
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote. — Glenn Greenwald
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously. — Hunter S. Thompson
If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased. — Walter Cronkite
I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers. — Taylor Swift
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? — Hunter S. Thompson
Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations. — Joseph Pulitzer
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. — Hunter S. Thompson
Newspaper Reporters Quotes
These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie. — Edward Bennett Williams
If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you. — Julius Streicher
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. — Oscar Wilde
That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only. — Thomas Carlyle
Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter. — Joe Paterno
The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done. — Edward R. Murrow
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer. — Ben Bagdikian
Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is. — Ben Bradlee
Modern Journalism Quotes
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph. — Tom Brokaw
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. — Oscar Wilde
I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist. — Shane Smith
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because 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. — Oscar Wilde
Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony. — Nick Denton
The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through. — Sayings
And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life. — Judy Woodruff
As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest. — Oscar Wilde
I read like everybody - like every other writer. — Nat Hentoff
Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization. — Glenn Greenwald
Newspaper Editors Quotes
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. — Elbert Hubbard
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. — Tony Hillerman
Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper. — Arthur Christiansen
Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end? — Yao Ming
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors. — Michael D. Higgins
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. — Adlai E. Stevenson
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay! — Jack Germond
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. — Kate Chopin
I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing. — Tina Fey
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper. — Jeffery Deaver
Being A Journalist Quotes
First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever. — Milo Yiannopoulos
The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. — Arnold Bennett
Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet. — Chet Huntley
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused. — Joe Klein
The ability to keep things in perspective is very important for a journalist. In a tense situation you need the ability to be there, yet somehow step aside; to keep a cool head and keep working without getting frustrated. — Philip Jones Griffiths
You have to understand that the I.D.W. emerged as a response to a world where perfectly reasonable intellectuals were being regularly mislabeled by activists, institutions, and mainstream journalists with every career-ending epithet from 'Islamophobe' to 'Nazi'. — Eric Weinstein
It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out. — Robert Fisk
Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up. — Carol Burnett
The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no. — W. Eugene Smith
Good Journalism Quotes
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost. — Napoleon Bonaparte
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. — Christiane Amanpour
You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line. — Carl Bernstein
Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over. — Hunter S. Thompson
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That is how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses and that is where we come in. — Scott Pelley
Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism. — Dave Barry
It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in. — Julian Assange
Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal. — Jim Rohn
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. — Hunter S. Thompson
The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal.That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. — Mark Twain
A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read. — Jimmy Breslin
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. — Charles A. Dana
I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. — Molly Ivins
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy. — Harry Allen Overstreet
I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe. — Francois Gautier
You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories. — Dave Barry
They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course. — Joseph Pulitzer
The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot. — Katharine Graham
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. — Arthur Brisbane
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. — C. E. M. Joad
It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism. — Charles Osgood
No news is good news. No journalists is even better. — Nicolas Bentley
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it. — Will Rogers
If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right. — Hunter S. Thompson
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. — Art Buchwald
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality. — Bill Vaughan
Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents. — Sayings
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. — Erwin Knoll
Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true. — Daniel Handler
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. — Adlai E. Stevenson
The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper. — Jim Jarmusch
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits. — Stephen Leacock
A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it. — Henry David Thoreau
The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much. — Henry David Thoreau
Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth. — Alphonse De Lamartine
I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper. — Dave Eggers
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes. — Daniel Handler
Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something. — Sayings
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper. — Johannes V. Jensen
It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade. — Russell Baker
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. — Thomas Carlyle
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. — Mark Twain
I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they're getting is not the quality of 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal.' It's way deficient, and they don't care. — Harvey Weinstein
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence? — Mary C. Ames
I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation. — Henry David Thoreau
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