Explore Quotes on Journalism

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint.

Journalism is merely history's first draft.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

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.

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.

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

(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.