I found some interesting quotations from time to time about journalism. Do you feel the same way?
- People everywhere confuse what they read in newspaper with news. (AJ Liebling, 1904-1963)
- Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. (Cyril Connoly, 1903-1974, Enemies of Promise (1938))
- Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. (Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, quoted in Linda Botts "Loose Talk" (1980))
- A newspaper consist 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 Sienfeld, 1954-)
- 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))
- Free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. (Albert Camus, 1913-1960)
- Opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy, a newspaper, kiddo, is about style. (Garrison Keillor, Tribune Media Syndicate, 10 Jan 2007)
- Monsieur l'abbe, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write. (Voltaire, letter to M. le Riche, 6 February 1779, cited in A Book of French Quotation (1963), Norbert Guterman)
- Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair. (Dalai Lama)
- I don't so much mind that newspaper are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off (Molly Ivins)
- A petty reason perhaps why novelist more and more try to keep distance from journalist is that novelist are trying to write the truth and journalist are trying to write fiction. (Graham Greene, 1904-1991)
- In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. (Mark Twain, 1835-1910)
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