Journalism Quotes

Only by means of such discipline can the young man acquire that physical loathing for the beloved and much-admired elegance of style of our newspaper manufacturers and novelists, and for the ornate style of our literary men.

Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine!

Feel free to cover Amazon any way you want. Feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want.

I never worked on the school newspaper.

But it's really dangerous to demonize the media. It's dangerous to call the media lowlifes. It's dangerous to say they're the enemy of the people.

The Post is famous for its investigative journalism. It pours energy and investment and sweat and dollars into uncovering important stories. And then a bunch of websites summarize that [work] in about four minutes and readers can access that news for free. One question is, how do you make a living in that kind of environment? If you can't, it's difficult to put the right resources behind it. ... Even behind a paywall, websites can summarize your work and make it available for free. From a reader point of view, the reader has to ask, 'Why should I pay you for all that journalistic effort when I can get it for free from another site?'

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must have the economic strength to stand up to the blandishments of government officials. It must have sufficient independence from vested interests to be bold and inquiring without fear or favour. It must enjoy the protection of the constitution, so that it can protect our rights as citizens.

A free Press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that freemen prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.

Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

How in God's name do you let such paragraphs into the Tribune? ... I confess it astonishes me.