Journalism Quotes

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.

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.

He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.

An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

News is the first rough draft of history.

Benjamin Bradlee

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Wilbur F. Storey

What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail grow indispensable.

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy.

Harry A. Overstreet

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Finley Peter Dunne

Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

James Gordon Bennett

Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.

William Randolph Hearst

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

Clifton Fadiman

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.

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.

He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.

An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

News is the first rough draft of history.

Benjamin Bradlee

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Wilbur F. Storey

What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail grow indispensable.

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy.

Harry A. Overstreet

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Finley Peter Dunne

Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

James Gordon Bennett

Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.

William Randolph Hearst

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

Clifton Fadiman

Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land.

Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

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.

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

Arthur Brisbane

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.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

Jean de La Fontaine

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

Napoleon

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Wendell Phillips

The newspapers! Sir they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has promised the front office results, pleading, yelling, cajoling, pacing, working his facial expressions for instant effects - anger, satisfaction, concern.-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

But you're absolutely sure we're right?' The question carried an intensity absent from the previous conversation. 'I remember talking with Henry Kissinger,' she continued, 'and he came up and said 'What's the matter, don't you think we're going to be re-elected? You were wrong on Haldeman.' And he seemed upset and said something about it being terribly, terribly unfair.'If there's anyone who has not been wronged, Woodward said, it is Bob Haldeman. It was the most definite statement Woodward made during lunch.'Oh, really,' said Mrs. Graham. 'I'm glad to hear you say that, because I was worried.' She paused. 'You've reassured me. You really have.' She looked at Woodward. Her face said, Do better.-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

Woodward said that he had told no one the name of Deep Throat.Mrs. Graham paused. 'Tell me,' she said.Woodward froze. He said he would give her the name if she wanted. He was praying she wouldn't press it. Mrs. Graham laughed, touched his arm and said she was only kidding, she didn't really want to carry that burden around with her. Woodward took a bite of his eggs, which were cold.-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

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