1.
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
Robert Scheer
3.
Never awake me when you have good news to announce,
because with good news nothing presses;
but when you have bad news,
arouse me immediately,
for then there is not an instant to be lost.
Napoleon Bonaparte
5.
I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
Chris Jericho
6.
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
Maureen Dowd
7.
The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.
David Talbot
8.
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
Maureen Dowd
9.
What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.
Amira Hass
10.
For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
Gloria Borger
11.
That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.
Nora Ephron
12.
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
David Brinkley
13.
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
14.
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.
David Remnick
16.
Journalism is an act of faith in the future.
Ann Curry
17.
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
Tristan Tzara
18.
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
Julian Assange
20.
The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.
Walter Lippmann
22.
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
Bob Woodward
23.
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.
Walter Lippmann
24.
Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.
Carl Bernstein
25.
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.
Tristan Tzara
26.
The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpretation. And I'm very happy having different interpretations of it.
Alec Soth
28.
I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.
Morley Safer
30.
Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
Horace Greeley
31.
Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
Martha Gellhorn
32.
Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.
Henry David Thoreau
33.
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
Ben Bradlee
35.
I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.
Tommy Docherty
37.
Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.
Jeffrey Bernard
38.
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
H. L. Mencken
39.
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
Graham Greene
40.
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
Mahatma Gandhi
41.
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
Bill Moyers
43.
The press has bravely and nobly eroded the public trust... What I'm advocating is the media come work for us again. Remove themselves from the symbiotic relationship that they have developed with the power structure of corporations and of the politicians.
Jon Stewart
44.
Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.
Leslie Moonves
45.
It's very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person against another: "Now we're going to hear the opposing view." There is never a third view.
James Hillman
46.
Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.
Dino Buzzati
47.
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
Diane Lane
48.
Writers are always selling somebody out.
Joan Didion
49.
They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
Christiane Amanpour
50.
Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.
Larry King