Journalism Quotes - Page 40

• In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

  Edward P. Jones

  Fiction, Facts, Steps

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• The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Chairs, Editorials, Cushions

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Roundabout Papers”, p.76

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• Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

  Bill Cosby

  Media, Black, Mind

  "Upbeat Cosby expects ‘black media’ to stay neutral". Phone conversation, pagesix.com. December 13, 2014.

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• Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Sometimes, Live By, Journalist

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• Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

  Janet Malcolm

  Trust, Betrayal, Loneliness

  The Journalist and the Murderer pt. 1 (1990)

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• He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

  Robertson Davies

  Autumn, Editors, Fudge

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• In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Jobs, Real

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• The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Writing, Eye

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.401

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• The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Blessing, Liberty

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.191

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• I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

  James Boswell

  Trying, Let Me

  James Boswell, Marlies K. Danziger (1989). “Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

  Annalena McAfee

  Book, Leaving, Lists

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• Always verify your references.

  Martin Routh

  Verify

  "Lives of twelve good men" by John William Burgon, Vol. 1, (p. 73), 1888.

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• I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.

  Peter York

  Study Life, Order, Fans

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• If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we're not turning into Brunswick. We will remain SRU, but we will be owned by the Brunswick Group. It's quite different.

  Peter York

  Moving, Agency, Groups

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• With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the States, a question that kept coming up was this: how can you, as a man, talk about three women?

  Stephen Daldry

  Men, Three, Film

  "He'll turn his hand to anything". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.

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• One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Balance, Littles, Enough

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• Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Running, Book, Writing

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• The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpretation. And I'm very happy having different interpretations of it.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Different, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."

  Robert Reich

  Two, Stories, Wonder

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.

  Cyril Connolly

  Eye, Facts, Tomorrow

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• By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.

  Robert Motherwell

  Writing, People, Tasks

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• The Bridge had a lot of long, soft profiles about the administration, .. In contrast, BU Today has shorter, hard pieces - more consistent with online journalism - which people can read every morning when they log on.

  Craig David

  Morning, Bridges, Long

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• If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

  Walter Cronkite

  Long, News, Unbiased

  "Walter Cronkite Review: 'Gawd Almighty,' Shout 'the Truths' of Liberalism" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. July 20, 2009.

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• Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Writing

  "Timeline: a history of free speech" by David Smith, Luc Torres, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2006.

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• Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.

  John Fletcher

  Believe, Writing, News

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1812). “The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes”, p.41

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