Famous media-journalism quotations

   We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.  Nice Word by The Houghton Line, November 1965

   Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.  Meaningful Quotation by Adlai E. Stevenson

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.  Good Quote by Art Buchwald, 1969

   Journalism is literature in a hurry.  Wise Phrase by Matthew Arnold

   With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.  Wise Phrase by Kingman Brewster, Jr.

   Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.  Famous Saying by Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship

   Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to.  Nice Word by Helen Swaffer

   The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.  Meaningful Quotation by Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891

   Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.  Good Quote by Erwin Knoll

   News is history shot on the wing.  Wise Phrase by Gene Fowler, Skyline

   You can crush a man with journalism.  Wise Phrase by William Randolph Hearst

   If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.  Famous Saying by Malcolm X

   Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.  Nice Word by Norman Mailer

   I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.  Meaningful Quotation by Earl Warren, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 22 July 1968

   If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President Can't Swim.  Good Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

   Journalism is organized gossip.  Wise Phrase by Edward Egglestone

   Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.  Wise Phrase by Anna Quindlen

   Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.  Famous Saying by George Bernard Shaw, 1931

   No news is good news. No journalists is even better.  Nice Word by Nicolas Bentley

   All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.  Meaningful Quotation by Ira Berkow

   Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.  Good Quote by Rebecca West

   I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.  Wise Phrase by Gandhi

   The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayadère of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, Look at me. Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising - only these stand a chance.  Wise Phrase by Henry James

   A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.  Famous Saying by Arthur Miller

   The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.  Nice Word by Thomas Jefferson



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