Modern Journalism Quotes

#1. As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

Nick Denton

#3. The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.

Andrew Marr

#4. Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed: a passage which some have considered as a prophecy of modern journalism.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born.

Jill Lepore

#6. Obsessed with the desire to be happy I lost my life. I moved with the tension of a bow and arrow in an unreality of desires.

Clarice Lispector

#7. David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

Tom Brokaw

#8. And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

Judy Woodruff

#9. One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.

George Archer

#10. Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves.

John C. Danforth

#11. I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

Shane Smith

#12. As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

Michael Arad

#13. I'm not a fair woman," she choked out. "I want impossible, contradictory things. I'm all hard edges, Sebastian. Hard edges and crumpled pieces and broken pieces of glass. There is no way for you to win this.

Courtney Milan

#14. The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#15. Being a spectator of calamities taking place in an other country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more than a century and a half's worth of those professional, specialized tourists known as journalists.

Sontag, Susan

#16. A man should love others as himself and also their parents as his own.

Lao-Tzu

#17. Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

Dana Carvey

#18. I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn.

John Steinbeck

#19. Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.

Honore De Balzac

#20. I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!

Hans Christian Andersen

#21. The road home is tinged with regret and the road forward is full of the unknown.

Joaquin Lowe

#22. I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

Cara Delevingne

#23. With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.

Anna Meredith

#24. We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.

Frederick Lenz

#25. Albert Camus did not know he was summing up modern photojournalism when he wrote:Will I kill myself or have a cup of coffee

Sacha Hartgers

#26. Even logic and conversation are really just forms of trading, and as in all things, humans will always try to seek their own best advantage, to seek the greatest profit they can from the exchange.

David Graeber