Russell Baker Quotes About Journalism

Quotes about: Journalism

• It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.

  Russell Baker

  Writing, Self Confidence, Arrogance

• Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.

  Russell Baker

  Empty Mind, People, Brain

  Russell Baker (1991). “There's a Country in My Cellar”, Avon Books

• Serious journalism need not be solemn.

  Russell Baker

  Serious, Needs, Journalism

• There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

  Russell Baker

  Writing, People, Literature

• A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

  Russell Baker

  Successful, Men, Careers

• After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Years, Two

  Russell Baker (1984). “Growing Up”, Signet Book

• Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

  Russell Baker

  Journalism

• Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

  Russell Baker

  Background Noise, Journalism, Backgrounds

• Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

  Russell Baker

  Wall, Journalism, Profit

  "Goodbye to Newspapers?". Article by Russell Baker, www.nybooks.com. August 16, 2007.

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