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Quotes About Journalism

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.
~ Matt Taibbi
It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
~ Patricia Heaton
The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
~ Carl Bernstein
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Ce que je reproche aux journaux, c'est de nous faire faire attention tous les jours à des choses insignifiantes tandis que nous lisons trois ou quatre fois dans notre vie les livres où il y a des choses essentielles.
~ Marcel Proust
He's not 'people,' Melia. He's a reporter.
~ Marcia Clark
reporters are still floating around." "We'll meet you in the lobby," I said. When Michael
~ Marcia Clark
If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
~ Marilyn Manson
The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.
~ Alastair Campbell
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
~ Walter Cronkite
The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.
~ Hugo Black
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
~ George Orwell
The only security of all is in a free press.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
~ Mark Twain
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
~ Dan Rather
We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.
~ Fisher Ames
Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.
~ Thomas Jefferson
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.
~ Walter Cronkite
Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.
~ Karl Marx
When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.
~ Elliott Abrams
It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
~ Charles Kuralt
Free thought, free speech and a free press.
~ Anne Royall