Quotes About Journalism

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

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.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Hay crisis en muchos campos, pero parece que el periodismo las convoca todas.

El periodismo está vivo y por eso lo matan.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

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

People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?

Voglio continuare a vivere dopo la mia morte! Perciò sono grata a Dio che mi ha fatto nascere con quest'attitudine a evolvermi e a scrivere per esprimere ciò che è in me. Scrivendo dimentico tutti i miei guai, mi rianimo e la mia tristezza svanisce. Ma, e questo è il problema, saprò scrivere qualche cosa di grande, diverrò mai giornalista o scrittrice? Lo spero, perché scrivendo posso fissare tutto, i miei pensieri, i miei ideali e le mie fantasie.

When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived! But, and that's a big question, will I ever be able to write something great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?

I finally realized that I must do my schoolwork to keep from being ignorant, to get on in life, to become a journalist, because that's what I want! I know I can write.

But Marchent, most journalists can't be trusted. You do know that, don't you?

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

The press, in other words, was free, but some newspapers (the British-owned ones) were freer than others.