Quotes about Journalism

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

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

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.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

I must admit that I didn't choose journalism, I was caught off guard; the profession simply sank its claws into me. It was love at first sight, a sudden passion that has determined a large part of my life.

Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.

There is no way to answer the systemic distortions of the press.

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don't have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

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

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

I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.

If we forget that the newspapers are footnotes to Scripture and not the other way around, we will finally be afraid to get out of bed in the morning. Too many of us spend far too much time with the editorial page and not nearly enough with the prophetic vision. We get our interpretation of politics and economics and morals from journalists when we should be getting only information; the meaning of the world is most accurately given to us by God's Word.