Journalism Quotes



It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.
James Cameron (1911-1985) British journalist.

Doctors bury their mistakes. Lawyers hang them. But journalists put theirs on the front page.
Anonymous.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist, critic.

A certain squalid knot of alleys where the town’s bad blood once slept corruptly.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet pf Fleet Street.

What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is at the moment. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Street really is until it craps on you from a great height.
Ken Livingstone (b.1945) British Labour politician

You cannot hope to bribe or twist the British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there’s no occasion to.
Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940) British poet, author.

Give someone half a page in a newspaper and they think they own the world.
Jeffrey Bernard British journalist.

There is but one way for a newspaperman to look at a politician, and that is down.
Frank H. Siomonds (1878-1936) American journalist, Author.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.
Frank Zappa (b.1940) American rock musician.

Journalism is still an underdeveloped profession and accordingly, newspaperman are quite often regarded as were surgeons and musicians a century ago, as having the rank, roughly speaking, of barbers and riding masters.
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American journalist.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you are at it.

In a great democracy such as ours the outstanding need of the hour is greater information and greater tolerance. Sincere efforts at enlightenment and education by the press are more important than self appointed leadership.
Roy W.Howard.

In my opinion newspaper work offers better opportunities, aside from the accumulation of money, for real serviceable, result getting labor than any other business a young man may choose.
Samuel G.Blythe.

The journalist holds up an umbrella, protecting society from the fiery hail of conscience.
George W.Russell.

The paper which obtains a reputation for publishing authentic news and only that which is fit to print… will steadily increase its influence.
Andrew Carnegie.

If you know many people it is impossible to conduct a newspaper impersonally, and the only way to run a newspaper is in an impersonal way.
Lord Northcliffe.

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.

I would sooner call myself a journalist than an author for a journalist is a journeyman.
Gilbert K.Chesterton.

Take away the newspaper and this country of ours would become a scene of chaos. Without daily assurance of the exact facts so far as we are able to know and publish them the public imagination would run riot. Ten days without the daily newspaper and the strong pressure of worry and fear would throw the people of this country into mob hysteria feeding upon into mob hysteria feeding upon rumors, alarms, terrified by bugbears and illusions. We have become the watchmen of the night and of a troubled day.
Harry Chandler.

All journalists are by virtue of their handicraft, alarmists; this is their way of making themselves interesting.
Lord Riddell.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God, the British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there’s no occasion to.
James Milne.

You will generally find that the person who doesn’t give a continental what the newspaper say about ‘im either one way or the other subscribes to a press clipping bureau anyway.
Elbert Hubbard.

Just as it is the automobile manufactures business to sell transportation, so it is the newspaper owner’s business to sell information and not advice nor propaganda.
Walter B.Pitkin.

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