Quotes: Journalism

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That’s why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable.

We didn’t see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

I didn’t like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.