Nobody's interested in
sweetness and light.
?Hedda Hopper
The press, like fire, is an excellent
servant, but a terrible master.
?James Fenimore Cooper
Rock journalism is people who
can't write interviewing people
who can't talk
for people who can't read.
?Frank Zappa
Journalism without a moral
position is impossible.
Every journalist is a moralist.
It's absolutely unavoidable.
?Marguerite Duras
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
?Geoffrey C. Ward
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin
to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy
the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
?Maureen Dowd
I read the newspaper avidly.
It is my one form of continuous fiction.
?Aneurin Bevan
The bigger the information media, the
less courage and freedom they follow.
Bigness means weakness.
?Eric Sevareid
If the newspapers of a country are filled
with good news, the jails of that
country will be filled with good people.
?Daniel Moynihan
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
?Matthew Arnold
Never believe in anything until
it has been officially denied.
?Otto von Bismarck
What's the difference between a 3-week-old
puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks,
the puppy will stop whining.
?Mike Ditka
Try to be conspicuously accurate in
everything, pictures as well as text.
Truth is not only stranger than
fiction, it is more interesting.
?William Randolph Hearst
The idea that media is there to educate
us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's
about tenth or eleventh on their list.
?Abbie Hoffman
Journalism - an ability to meet the
challenge of filling the space.
?Rebecca West
There aren't any embarrassing questions --
only embarrassing answers.
?Carl Rowan
Remember, son, many a good story
has been ruined by over-verification.
?James Gordon Bennett
