Journalism Quotes - Page 22

• Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Father

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• The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.158

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• We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper.At any meeting of politicianshow impertinent it would be to quote from the Bible! how pertinent to quote from a newspaper or from the Constitution!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religious, People, Religion

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• With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

  LZ Granderson

  Technology, Rocks, Media

  "America, a nation without heroes" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. November 17, 2011.

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• I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

  Katharine Weymouth

  Democracy, Feels

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• There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

  Chuck Todd

  Stories, Links, Crime

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• Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn't do coke goes to Columbia.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Wind, White

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• There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

  Karl Kraus

  Clerks, Shortage

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Stories, Retrospect

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• It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

  Karl Kraus

  Missions, Intellect, Presses

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

  Karl Kraus

  Prophet, Historian, Backwards

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Biblewhich every man carries in his pocket, which lies on every table and counter, and which the mail, and thousands of missionaries, are continually dispersing. It is, in short, the only book which America has printed, and which America reads. So wide is its influence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Morning, Lying

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• Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Television, Conflict, Used

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• I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.

  Florence King

  Writing, Crowns, Literature

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• the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

  Jessica Mitford

  Writing, Trying, May

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• [On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

  Maureen Dowd

  Struggle, Firsts, Imperfect

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• We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.

  George Sand

  Writing, Cutting, Liberty

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.111, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

  Marie Corelli

  Mean, Style, Diction

  Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.304, Health Research Books

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• A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

  George William Curtis

  Echoes, Should, Journal

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• Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

  Enid Bagnold

  Phoenix, Ashes, News

  Enid Bagnold (2013). “National Velvet”, p.301, Courier Corporation

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• [On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Aunt, Tears, Maidens

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• [On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Body, Turds, Menace

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• The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Tragedy, Development, Facts

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• Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  News, Lost, Awake

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• I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

  Chris Hayes

  Blood, Lefties, Labor

  "Chris Hayes Says New MSNBC Show Will Continue Labor Coverage In Ed Schultz’s Tradition" by Dave Jamieson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2013.

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