Newspapers Quotes

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Journalism delivers news, but not necessarily relevance.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.

Christopher Hitchens

Media work needs ideals. Maybe thirty years from now, after I retire, I'll see the media mature and make the transition from political party, interest group, and corporate to truly public. But over the next ten years, the encroachment of commercialism and worldliness will loom much larger than the democratization we imagine. -Jin Yongquan in China Ink

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana