Quotes about Journalism

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

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

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

Newspapers of the future, to be conducted successfully, must be divorced from special privilege and relieved from the subsidy of advertising. They must cease to be organs of propaganda for the interests which patronize their advertising columns. The type of newspaper which publishes scandal and lewd pictures will eventually go the way of all forces which debauch the human mind. These

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Suspense in news is torture.

It had been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action—even an opinion is a kind of action.

Dean's eyes were studying me. You have a way with words. What kind of writing do you want to do? Articles for Dad's paper, to start. What do you want to write about? I paused, suddenly uncertain about how much to share. Dean's eyes were reassuring. When I know more, I'd like to write about deeper things.