Journalism Quotes

"I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going." "The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses." "A free press can of course be good or bad, but it is certain that without freedom it will never be anything but bad." "It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." "People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to." "Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left." "America is a country of inventors and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men" "The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work" "The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were" "Great questions make great reporting" "If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats" "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed" "The press is a gang of cruel faggots Journalism is not a profession or a trade; it is a cheap catch-all for f****d-up drunks and misfits-a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage" "One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines." "In a world where, let's say, everyone is blogging, it's difficult for a citizen to know what is really happening" "If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed; if you do, you’re misinformed"