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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault -- Henry Anatole Grunwald
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. -- George Orwell
Journalism is organized gossip. -- Edward Eggleston
Journalism is literature in a hurry. -- Matthew Arnold
Journalism keeps you planted in the earth. -- Ray Bradbury
Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving. -- David Burge
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it. -- Horace Greeley
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. -- Marguerite Duras
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. -- John Hersey
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa
Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last. -- John Maxwell Hamilton
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. -- Henry Anatole Grunwald
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Journalism is a Darwinian process. -- Denise Mina
Journalism is straying into entertainment. -- Drew Curtis
Journalism is the entertainment business. -- Frank Herbert
Journalism combines adventure with culture. -- Oriana Fallaci
Journalism is less addictive than communism. -- Dan Rather
Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey Ward
Journalism is the first draft of history -- Phil Graham
Journalism classes would have been interesting to me. -- Adam Scott
Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip. -- Andrew Marr
Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working. -- Jeffrey Bernard
Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening. -- Mason Cooley
Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going. -- Jim Lehrer
Journalism is in fact history on the run. -- Thomas B. Griffith
Journalism is not a profession, but a mission. -- Benito Mussolini
Journalism is the first rough draft of history -- Donald E. Graham
Journalism as theater is what TV news is. -- Thomas Griffith
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post. -- H. L. Mencken
Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being. -- Howard Kurtz
Journalism is an act of faith in the future -- Ann Curry
Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution. -- Philippe Kahn
Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me. -- Bill Moyers
Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal. -- William Zinsser
Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art -- Dan Rather
Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art. -- Jeanette Winterson
That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip. -- Scott Pelley
Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. -- Rebecca West
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds. -- Honore de Balzac
I said in 2008 the media is dead in America. Journalism's dead. -- Sean Hannity
Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession. -- David Talbot
Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession. -- David Talbot
Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. -- Russell Baker
Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. -- Thomas Frank
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change. -- Andrew Vachss
Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time. -- Andrew Marr
Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary. -- Frank Zappa
Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces. -- Anthony Shadid
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. -- Alexander Cockburn
Think of Instagram. Journalism will continue to exist, but communication is now visual. -- Franca Sozzani
Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it. -- Horace Greeley
Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books. -- Theodore Tilton
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. -- Oscar Wilde
If you're in Journalism and you're looking for friends, you should get a dog. -- Dan Rather
Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens. -- Michael Pollan
Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I'll never master that. -- Stig Dagerman
Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance. -- Dan Rather
Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. -- Lord Northcliffe
Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way. -- Anas Aremeyaw Anas
And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism. -- Charlie LeDuff
Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring. -- Drew Curtis
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality. -- Thomas Griffith
Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. -- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. -- Terry Pratchett
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. -- Russell Baker
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody. -- Lawrence Wright
Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others. -- Martha Gellhorn
Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound. -- Charles A. Dana
Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. -- Marguerite Duras
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. -- Maureen Dowd
Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting. -- Vladimir Putin
Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist. -- Andrew Vachss
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. -- Tom Wolfe
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. -- Archibald MacLeish
I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me. -- Frank Caliendo
Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time. -- Ted Koppel
I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world. -- Harry Reasoner
Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests. -- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then. -- Pat Oliphant
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on. -- Harrison Salisbury
Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community. -- Bill Kovach
Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for. -- Leslie Cockburn
Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous. -- Ted Turner
Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads. -- David Frum
Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society. -- Thomas Sadoski
Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War. -- Michael Robotham
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world. -- Warren Ellis
We cannot make good news out of bad practice. -- Edward R. Murrow
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know. -- Bob Woodward
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. -- Norman Mailer
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think. -- Arthur Brisbane
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. -- Walter Cronkite
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde
I have nothing but the highest regard for 'Salon' and its commitment to independent and provocative journalism. -- Glenn Greenwald
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar Wilde
I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. -- Linda Ellerbee
Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. -- Terry Pratchett
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. -- Tom Stoppard
I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. -- Molly Ivins
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. -- Cyril Connolly
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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
We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers. -- Helen Thomas
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
With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. -- Hunter S. Thompson

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