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Quotations by Subject: Journalism
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Showing quotations 11 to 23 of 23 quotations in our collections

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.: Jimmy Breslin
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), "Esquire", June 1960
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.: Russel Lynes
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)


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