Top 44 Quotes About Newspapers Journalism
#1. A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
Andrew Vachss
#2. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
#3. The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.
Nick Davies
#4. How can people trust social media over newspapers today?
Joel Landau
#5. If political cartoonists continue to rely on newspapers, we may be in serious trouble. It's a very transferable form of journalism, though - it works great on Web sites.
David Horsey
#6. In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what he has seen. Those qualifications are unnecessary for journalists, however, since their job is to write sensational stories that sell newspapers.
Robert Anton Wilson
#7. I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was twelve years old I wrote reports on local football matches for the newspapers.
Colum McCann
#8. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.
Christopher Hitchens
#9. I think journalism anywhere should be based on social justice and impartiality, making contributions to society as well as taking responsibility in society. Whether you are capitalist or socialist or Marxist, journalists should have the same professional integrity.
Tan Hongkai
Judy Polumbaum
#10. As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."
Dave Barry
#11. 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
#12. As the newspaper industry continues to contract, one of the most commonly voiced fears is that serious investigative journalism will be among the victims of the scaleback. And, indeed, many newspapers are drastically reducing their investigative teams.
Arianna Huffington
#13. I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.
Phillip Knightley
#14. I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
Will Rogers
#15. You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy!
Jonathan Lynn
#16. I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.
Dave Eggers
#17. What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it is the wishful thinking of journalists, seen through filters of prejudice and ignorance.
Hans Jurgen Eysenck
#18. In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job.
Matt Taibbi
#19. Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. One of the cardinal rules of journalism: Once you have cabled a story you must stick by it and back it up, unless something completely overwhelming proves you to have been wrong. In such a case, just drop the matter.
Wynant Davis Hubbard
#21. Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.
Finley Peter Dunne
#22. The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers.
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
#23. I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William T. Sherman
#25. Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism.
Bill Kurtis
#26. Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. There's a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed of transmission are growing; but the traditional gravity of news has eroded. -Jin Yongquan
Judy Polumbaum
#27. Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.
Paul Tobin
#28. Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#29. But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.
Ben Bradlee
#30. The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.
Margaret Atwood
#31. As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists ...
Tom Rachman
#32. Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism ... When we shift our attention from 'save newspapers' to 'save society,' the imperative changes from 'preserve the current institutions' to 'do whatever works.' And what works today isn't the same as what used to work.
Clay Shirky
#33. It's important to remember that the future of quality journalism is not dependent on the future of newspapers. The discussion needs to move from "How do we save newspapers?" to "How do we save and strengthen journalism?" - however it is delivered.
Arianna Huffington
#35. I'm sure it's all journalism [ ... ] It means it's true enough for now.
Terry Pratchett
#36. I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.
Jack Benny
#37. Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.
Tom Robbins
#40. Now listen,' said George angrily, 'I've been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you what's going on.'
'Nonsense. If there's one place in the world where nobody knows what's going on, it's a newspaper office.
Jack Iams
#41. It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.
Umberto Eco
#42. 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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#43. Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.
Irv Kupcinet
#44. God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
Tom Wolfe
