Journalism Quotes
These are some of the best 'Journalism' quotations and sayings.
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A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
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If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.
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Journalism has become, and is becoming every day in even greater degree, the most important function in the community.
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Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
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Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
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That potent engine, the dread of tyrants, and of villians, but the shield of freedom and of worth.
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The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth, - truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.
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The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press.
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The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.
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The news and the truth are not the same thing.
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The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
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The paper which obtains a reputation for publishing authentic news and only that which is fit to print, . . . will steadily increase its influence.
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The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.
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To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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You will generally find that the person who doesn't give a continental what the newspapers say about 'im either one way or the other subscribes to a press clipping bureau anyway.
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