622 Quotes About Journalism

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

I don't know whether it will sell; God's truth, I don't care. I want it in libraries, I want it in journalism schools. I want it out there.

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader