journalism quotes

If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusting shield of British fair play, so be it.

-JonathanWilliam Patrick Aitken
  Press statement,10  Apr.

Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead'to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  The Wisdom of Father Brown,'The Purple Wig'.

Literature istheart of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

- Cyril Vernon Connolly
  Enemies of Promise, ch.3.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

-Walter Lippmann
  Liberty and the News,'Journalism and the Higher Law'.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil. See Shakespeare 742:17.

-Walter Lippmann
  Liberty and the News,'Journalism and the Higher Law'.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

- Anthony (Terrell Seward) Sampson
  TheAnatomy of BritainToday, ch.9.

Marxism is at the root of debunking journalism.

- Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness Thatcher
Quoted inJohn Birt The Harder Path (2002).

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

- Hunter S(tockton) Thompson
  'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

Modern journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinianprinciple ofthesurvival ofthevulgarest.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
Intentions,'The Critic as Artist'.