89 Quotes About Journalists


  • Author Tom Rachman
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    They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.

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  • Author Robert Black
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    Everyone with a phone is a "journalist" these days. Traditional mainstream media resent that loss of power and market share, and so they have had their journalists diversify into owned political activists.

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  • Author A.E. Samaan
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    Computer hackers are the true journalists in the 21st Century. The old journalism is worse than dead. It is unreliable to the point that it is nothing more than a nuisance, an obstacle in the pursuit of truth.

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  • Author Evelyn Waugh
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    At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of "getting up earlier than the other fellow." But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers.

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  • Author Evelyn Waugh
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    As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job — popularity. There are plenty of disadvantages I grant you, but you are liked and respected. Ring people up any hour of the day or night, butt into their houses uninvited make them answer a string of damn fool questions when they want to do something else — they like it. Always a smile and the best of everything for the gentlemen of the Press.

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