journalism

Found 8 thoughts of journalism

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Henry Fielding

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Norman Mailer

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

A. J. Liebling

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Aleister Crowley

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