best quotations about
Journalism |
and News
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Quotations
 | People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 17 likes |
 | Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read. — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician 8 likes |
 | Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 7 likes |
 | This is not an event, it is a piece of news. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 7 likes |
 | We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 7 likes |
 | Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 5 likes |
 | A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 5 likes |
| If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 4 likes |
| The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 4 likes |
| Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true! — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 4 likes |
 | To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 4 likes |
| It s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 3 likes |
 | Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 3 likes |
 | The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 3 likes |
 | There is no news in August. — Umberto Eco, 1932-2016, Italian writer 3 likes |
 | Journalism largely consists of saying “Lord Jones is Dead ” to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 3 likes |
 | The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | Journalism can take you everywhere, as long as you quit in time. — Benito Moussolini, 1883-1945, Italian dictator 3 likes |
| In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 2 likes |
 | I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 2 likes |
| A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
 | The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865, French anarchist 2 likes |
 | Journalists never tell the truth, even when they do. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 1 likes |
 | If the Press did not exist, we would not have to invent it. |
| Newspapers are the brothel of thought. |
| For the journalist, whatever is probable is true. |
| The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs. |
 | Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. |
 | A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. |
 | I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures. |
 | The uniformity and obedience of the American media, which any dictator would admire… — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | Advertisements constitute the only “good news” in the newspaper. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| Headlines are icons, not literature. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | News used to come too late; now it comes too early. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers. |
 | The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station lawyer. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic |
 | If you want to be informed, read a newspaper; if you want to be misinformed, read two newspapers! |
Personal Stories
 | I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information. — Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011, British-American journalist & writer 4 likes |
Funny Quotes
| Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 6 likes |
 | If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read “President Can't Swim”. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 4 likes |
Special Quotes
 | All the News That's Fit to Print. — The motto of the New York Times 2 likes |
