Quotes About Journalism

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

Some argue that the Internet and the new communications technologies are breaking the corporate stranglehold on journalism and opening an unprecedented era of interactive democratic media.

A real journalist only states, neither collaborates nor participates.

Journalists voluntarily fight for human rights and freedom of speech; whereas, they stay silent, for their rights and journalistic freedom, on the will and restrictions of the boss of media. Indeed, it verifies that: The nearer the church, the farther from god.

The majority of journalists and anchors have the information only, but not the sense of knowledge.

The majority of journalists, politicians, celebrities, and such others suffer from incurable egoism.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

A free press is the greatest guarantee of a free society. We must keep it alive. We have to tolerate obnoxious opinions. But I don't want only opinions. I want facts.

Secondly, we have to learn that people must be informed. A free press is the greatest guarantee of a free society. We must keep it alive. We have to tolerate obnoxious opinions. But I don't want only opinions. I want facts.

I should be in Beirut, I thought, working as a journalist, but another part of me was so wary of that old life of guns and misery. I did not want to see Tyre again, or Qana, or Baghdad. I wanted to do nothing more than move dirt from one place to another.

A guy who does not feel shy, shame & guilt to speak relentlessly lie in every pie of information has a promising career to reach position very high in the field of politics and journalism. If he also wants to live life king size, fly often in sky, always enjoy at others expenses, first deprive and then pretend to cry over that matter, think selfishly in terms of I,ME & MY then he can also become head of the nation or private organization.

People in the news channel can make more artificial stories on any subject than the writers who are in the film industry.

The job of journalist, panelist and so-called experts seems to speak together via debate & discussion so much lies seamlessly & shamelessly to convert false into truth; to divert the minds of people from main issues to superfluous or irrelevant news; to insert words of anchors & sponsors into the mouth of people to make & show it as public views and inert the minds of the population of the nation.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.

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

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

I love Orla Guerin - she's my queen... when I watch her on the news, I just can't believe how brave she is.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

I started in journalism: my first magazine, I developed when I was 10. I sent it round to the neighbors. I also sent it to the Queen of England.

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.