Journalism Quotes - Page 25

• Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

  Theodore Tilton

  Book, Lectures, Sermons

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• There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Business, Directors, Essentials

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

  Ethel Waters

  Jobs, Judging, Outsiders

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• In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

  Bill Kovach

  Art, Discipline, Fiction

  Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel (2001). “The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect”, p.91, Three Rivers Press

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• Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

  Flora Lewis

  Truth, Trying, Substance

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• the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.

  Harriet Martineau

  Men, Honorable Man, People

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.76

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

  George William Curtis

  Echoes, Should, Journal

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• Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.

  Meg Greenfield

  Drama, Simple, Reality

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• The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.

  Enid Bagnold

  Hands, Littles, Bread

  Enid Bagnold (2013). “National Velvet”, p.302, Courier Corporation

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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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• In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

  Ellen Goodman

  News, Amphetamines, World

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• On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.

  Ellen Goodman

  Attitude, Thinking, Television

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• Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Thinking, People, Gossip

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

  Erica Jong

  Doe, Irony, Translate

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

  Nora Ephron

  Journalist

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• There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

  Nora Ephron

  News, Television, Reason

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.293, Vintage

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• The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

  John Fowles

  Comforting, Abhorrent, News

  1974 The Ebony Tower,'Poor Koko'.

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• I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

  Molly Ivins

  Thinking, Plagiarism, Ecological

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.49, Vintage

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• In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom from the press.

  Martina Navratilova

  United States, Publicity, Freedom Of The Press

  Quoted in Lee Green, Sportswit (1984)

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• The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Estates, Realms, Fourth

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• A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Expression, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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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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