Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. – G.K. Chesterton
News is history shot on the wing. – Gene Fowler, Skyline
It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism. – Charles Osgood
The newspaper is the second-hand in the clock of history; and it is not only made of baser metal than those which point to the minute and the hour, but it seldom goes right. – Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), “On Some Forms of Literature,” The Art of
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. – Ben Hecht
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. – Warren Chappell
If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event… what kind of film would you use? – Author Unknown
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. – Rebecca West
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. – Charles Baudelaire
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. – Henry Fielding
Journalism is literature in a hurry. – Matthew Arnold
No news is good news. No journalists is even better. – Nicolas Bentley
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. – Thomas Jefferson, letter to Nathaniel Macon
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. – David Brinkley
Harmony seldom makes a headline. – Silas Bent
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. – Arthur Miller
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. – Wendell Phillips
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow. – Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. – Norman Mailer
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism. – Hedrick Smith
