Thursday, November 03, 2005
Quotes on Journalism
From today's Quotes Of The Day:
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
- A. J. Liebling, 1904 - 1963
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
- Cyril Connolly, 1903 - 1974
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
- Karl Kraus
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
- Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your honor. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.
- Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910
No news is good news. No journalists is even better.
- Nicolas Bentley
