Quotes
Quotes about Journalism
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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.
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you are at it.
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over.
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
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.
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
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.
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. - The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
