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“But my point is that competitive eating is a real sport, and I considered taking it up. But when I thought about what this would mean sitting around for hours, stuffing my face with unhealthy food I realized it was basically the same thing as journalism.”

Mean Real Faces Sports Hours Eating Sitting I Realized Journalism Unhealthy Sitting Around Healthy Food Unhealthy Food

Author:Dave Barry

“Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."”

Art Events Intelligent Journalism Anticipation

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The sole aim of journalism should be service.”

Should Aim Journalism Sole

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.”

Should Stills Ends Sake Selfish Journalism Earning Livelihood

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.”

Opinion Journalism Public Opinion

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.”

Giving Mind Country Expression Function Journalism Fearless Journalist Peculiar Definite

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.”

Lying Walking Spread Journalism Plague Contagion Calumny

Book:The Way to Communal Harmony

Source: The Way to Communal Harmony

“Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.”

Today Religious Scripture Newspapers Journalism Replaced Gita

Book:The Way to Communal Harmony

Source: The Way to Communal Harmony

“The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.”

Presses Criminals Journalism Fourth Estates Misuse

Book:The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa

Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa

“Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.”

Thinking Should Facts Study Habit Independent Newspapers Journalism Independent Thinking

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.”

People Becoming West East Newspapers Journalism Gita

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.”

Country Presses Privilege Journalism Freedom Of The Press

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.”

Men Important Average Scripture Newspapers Journalism Average Man

Book:The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa

Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa

“Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.”

Has Beens Matter Known Transformation Journalism Journalist Grass Meat Columnists Jackals

Book:By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.”

Knows Needs Giving Trying Persons Loses Lines Attention Reader Six Research Tools Journalism Journalist Interviews

Author:Isabel Allende

“Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and downplayed the influence of strident and on occasion anti-democratic opponents. The flip side is his anti-imperialist posturing so dazzled his cheerleaders they overlooked his flaws, flaws which worsened over time, and they created their own caricature.”

Made Sides Virtue Influence Democratic Faults Journalism Occasions Opponents Lazy Target Flaws Ignored Flip Exaggerated Partisans Overlooked Confronting Caricatures Cheerleader Chavez

Author:Rory Carroll

“In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.”

Needs Writing Trying Kind Different Reading Fiction Clear Too Much Journalism Journalist Helpful Antidote Ambiguous Writing Fiction Reading And Writing Detrimental Concise

Author:Aravind Adiga

“Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.”

“Every industry, there are rogues and bad actors. There could be rogues and bad actors in journalism. Rogues and bad actors in medicine. Rogues and bad actors in the legal community.”

Actors Community Industry Medicine Journalism Rogues

Author:Anthony Scaramucci

“Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.”

Should Self Jobs Beats Importance Bunch Journalism Journalist Mundane Straightforward Chores Self-importance Melodrama

Author:Larry King

“Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”

Giving Writing Opportunity Fiction Reader Journalism Witness Hiroshima

Author:John Hersey

“Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.”

Two Political White Media Ten Paper Selling Journalism Buying Pounds Cents White Paper Two Cents

Author:Charles A. Dana

“Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”

Life Giving Writing Funny Journalism Journalist Freedom Of Speech Detest

Author:Voltaire

“Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.”

Feels Has Beens Boat Journalism Journalist Courageous Zero

Author:Ted Turner

“I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.”

Thinking States Lost United United States Internet Dues Newspapers Journalism Pregnancy Circulation Plagiarism

Author:Will McDonough

“News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.”

News Shots Wings Journalism Bags Fourth Estates Eagles Peacock

Author:Gene Fowler

“Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.”

People Kind Long Sometimes Sake Journalism Dirty Confrontation Naughty Dirty Words Dirty Minds

Author:Don Hewitt

“I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.”

People Brilliant Journalism Fooled Brilliant Ideas

Book:Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at the New York Times

Source: Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at the New York Times

“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.”

Feels Looks Figures Source Journalism Journalist Feminine Impressive Feels Right Silicon Gullible Enhancement

Author:Larry King

“Journalism is the first draft of history”

Firsts Journalism

Author:Phil Graham

“I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.”

Kind Art Wanted Art Is Claims Journalism Floating Cartoonist

Author:Jeff Smith

“Profiles aren't journalism.”

Journalism Profile

Author:Fred Wilson

“All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.”

Remember Imagination Memories Forget Journalism Novelists Compost Bad Memories

Author:Graham Greene

“I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.”

Men Children Guy President Grew Hero Degrees Authority Grew Up My Favorite Journalism Skepticism Dose My Hero Watergate

Author:Chris Carter

“My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.”

Kind Action Opinion Saws Fellows Journalism Journalist Titles Reporters

Book:The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American

“I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.”

Ifs Thinking Problem Might News Newspapers Journalism Journalist Cynical Untruth Allowance

Author:Russell Crowe

“I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Kind Higher News Regard Crisis Journalism Journalist Credibility Sympathetic Empathetic

Author:Russell Crowe

“I was never interested in the two-party system per se. I was interested in how authority was abused by government, and how lies were told, and rewritten, to seem to be true. I came up out of a tradition of radical journalism.”

Two Seems Government Lying Party Authority Tradition Being True Journalism Radical Two Party System

Author:Jules Feiffer

“I don't really like the way that journalism works in the UK anyway; it's all about getting the most shocking thing out of somebody and kind of twisting people's words, which isn't really journalism, as far as I'm concerned.”

People Way Kind Concerned Journalism Shocking Shocking Things

Author:Lily Allen

“I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time.”

Thinking Writing Mean Facts Novel Events Tasks Rose Profession Journalism Novelists Appropriate Turnover

Author:Ian Mcewan

“In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.”

Has Beens Concern England Medicine Journalism Cells Agendas Peers Journal Handful New England

Author:Michael Pollan

“Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.”

Long Alive Journalism

Author:Horace Greeley

“Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.”

Missions Profession Journalism

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.”

Beautiful Opportunity Social Virtue Source Oneself Treasure Journalism Suspects Print Buried Aesthetic Invitations Something Beautiful Stimulation

Author:John Updike

“Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.”

People Mind Two States Political Democracy Election Crisis Casts Journalism Propaganda Candidates Devices Polls Ballots Autocracy Acquiescence

Book:The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

Source: The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

“Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.”

Young Practice Poet Journalism Breakfast Wet Elders Sock Gin

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if I had not pursued journalism, I think storm-chasing would've been a really fun career.”

Ifs Thinking Fun Careers Storm Weather Journalism Chasing Pursued Stormy Stormy Weather

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.”

People Thinking Want Feels Writing Persons Ideas Asks Interesting Subjects Involved Terrible Journalism Journalist Interviews Peers Interesting Ideas

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.”

Character Pure Invention Journalism Greek Tragedy

Book:The Journalist And The Murderer

Source: The Journalist And The Murderer

“Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.”

Way Needs Lost Left Speak Happened Criticism Valuable Journalism Posts Journalist Comedian Guts Vacuums Spine Speak The Truth Supplements Transplants Good Journalism

Author:Dan Rather

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