Journalism And Journalists

(187 votes)   Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.

Margot Asquith
1864-1945, British Socialite

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(146 votes)   Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.

Marguerite Duras
1914-, French Author, Filmmaker

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(146 votes)   People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(140 votes)   Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(110 votes)   Bad manners make a journalist.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(107 votes)   I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(101 votes)   Our job is like a baker's work -- his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.

Ryszard Kapuscinski
1932, Polish Report and Foreign Correspondent

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(98 votes)   Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Jean De La Fontaine
1621-1695, French Poet

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(98 votes)   There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(94 votes)   The real news is bad news.

Marshall Mcluhan
1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist

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(92 votes)   The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

William Allen White
1868-1944, American Editor, Writer

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(91 votes)   He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

Robertson Davies
1913-, Canadian Novelist, Journalist

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(89 votes)   I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

P. J. O'Rourke
1947-, American Journalist

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(86 votes)   Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

Peggy Noonan
1950-, American Author, Presidential Speechwriter

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(73 votes)   Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

A. J. Liebling
1904-1963, American Journalist

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