| |  | | | | | | | | | | | A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state. | | Walter Lippmann | | | Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible | | Arthur Schopenhauer | | | I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it | | Will Rogers | | | In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever | | Oscar Wilde | | | Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. | | Gilbert K. Chesterton | | | Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist | | Oscar Wilde | | | Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. | | Gilbert K. Chesterton | | | Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them | | Adlai E. Stevenson | | | Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins | | Tom Stoppard | | | Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism | | Graham Greene | | | Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk | | Frank Zappa | | | No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist | | Karl Kraus | | | Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read | | Frank Zappa | | | The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read | | Oscar Wilde | | | The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. | | Oscar Wilde | | | There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great | | Walter Lippmann | | | There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. | | Oscar Wilde | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 17 of 17 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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