89 Quotes About Journalists
- Author Anna Politkovskaya
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Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd petunias?
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- Author David Halberstam
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The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification—if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist. ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?
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- Author Janet Malcolm
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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
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- Author Janet Malcolm
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Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and "the public's right to know"; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.
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- Author Rebecca Aguilar
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If you're not pitching, stop bitching
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- Author Marguerite Higgins
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I was gripped with a sense of unreality that followed me through most of the war. Reality, I guess, is just what we are accustomed to ...
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- Author Arif Naseem
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Journalism! it's a rude art
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- Author Washington Irving
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I have often wondered at the extreme fecundity of the press, and how it comes to pass that so many heads on which nature seemed to have inflicted the curse of barrenness should teem with voluminous productions.
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- Author Oscar Wilde
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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
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