Journalism Quotes

"If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed; if you do, you’re misinformed"

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper."

"The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work"

"One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines."

"People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to."

"America is a country of inventors and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men"

"Great questions make great reporting"

"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."

"The media's role is not to cover news objectively"

"The press is a gang of cruel faggots Journalism is not a profession or a trade; it is a cheap catch-all for f****d-up drunks and misfits-a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage"

"If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats"

"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier"

"I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going."

"Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news at you."

"A free press can of course be good or bad, but it is certain that without freedom it will never be anything but bad."