Journalism Quotes

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde

Ignorance, Giving, Touch

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde

Between, Read, Difference

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Oscar Wilde

America, President, Forever

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

Good, Money, Men

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

Truth, Today, Past

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa

Rock, Talk, Write

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Hillary Clinton

Trust, Business, Finance

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
Ray Bradbury

Earth, Keeps, Planted

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

Life, Another, Seen

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Saying, Dead, Alive

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'Rourke

Politics, Hope, Failure

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
Kate Adie

Freedom, Care, Down

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Tom Stoppard

Change, Aim, Weapon

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein

Truth, Today, Reality

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
Mason Cooley

Nothing, Happening

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.
Don Hewitt

Best, Long, Sometimes

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.
Rush Limbaugh

Real, Here, Making

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
Tom Stoppard

Different, Whole, Purpose

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.
Lil Wayne

Music, Another, News

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.
Chris Rock

School, After, College

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.
Charles Kuralt

Society, Important, Everything

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
Walter Cronkite

Opinion, Bible, Playboy

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Stephen Fry

Good, Business, Entering

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
Charles Kuralt

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.
Charles Kuralt

Life, Work, Time

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
Bob Woodward

Quality, Drama, Measured

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
Julian Assange

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.
Nate Silver

Work, Truth, Personal

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.
Gus Van Sant

Different, Find, Become

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.
Thomas Frank

Special, Place, Stories

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