Quotes about Journalism
Malcolm Muggeridge, that peripatetic journalist who traveled the globe for more than six decades of his life, said that if God is dead somebody else is going to have to take His place. It will either be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner. To
— Ravi Zacharias
A journalist, it is said, enjoys a license to be educated in public; we are the lucky ones, allowed to spend our days in a continuing course of adult education.
— Joseph Campbell
The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.
— Al Gore
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
— Dorothy Sayers
I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.
— Barack Obama
I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.
— John F. Kennedy
One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
— Will Rogers
No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.
— Barbara Kingsolver