Journalist Quotes - Page 2

• Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

  David Remnick

  One Day, Population, May

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• A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.

  Ralph Peters

  Bars, Politics, Aids

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• La libertad de prensa se limita a quienes poseen una.

  H. L. Mencken

  Divertido, Libertad, Político

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• Un periodista también necesita disciplina, y yo también. Sin disciplina no sería más que una masa de ositos de goma en el sofá en lugar de estar de gira con mi octava novela.

  Louise Penny

  Libro, Disciplina, Pereza

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• Teclea su trabajosa columna - ¡cansado zángano! Senil y solemne: ahórrese, editor, condenar estas hojas secas de su otoño.

  Robertson Davies

  Otoño, Editores, Fudge

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• The real news is bad news.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, News, Journalism

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• El periodismo sin una posición moral es imposible. Todo periodista es un moralista. Es absolutamente inevitable.

  Marguerite Duras

  Moral, Imposible, Periodismo

  Marguerite Duras (1997). "Outside", Beacon Press (MA)

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• Si mantienes una posición política coherente el tiempo suficiente, al final te acusarán de traición.

  Mort Sahl

  Long, Political, Enough

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• A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?

  Bill Moyers

  Events, Different, Journalism

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• Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do.

  Félix Salmón

  News, Breaking News

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• Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Writing, Literature

  Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 3

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• ... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too modest to say so, but broadcast journalism recovered with alacrity, my contract wasn't renewed, and the incident was forgotten.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Years, Proud, Journalism

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• El periodismo sin una posición moral es imposible. Todo periodista es un moralista. Es absolutamente inevitable. Un periodista es alguien que mira el mundo y su funcionamiento, alguien que observa de cerca las cosas cada día e informa de lo que ve, alguien que representa el mundo, el acontecimiento, para los demás. No puede hacer su trabajo sin juzgar lo que ve.

  Marguerite Duras

  Juzgar, Eventos, Looks

  Marguerite Duras (1997). "Outside", Beacon Press (MA)

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• El poder secreto detesta a los periodistas que hacen su trabajo: que apartan los biombos, miran detrás de las fachadas, levantan piedras. El oprobio de las altas esferas es su insignia de honor.

  John Pilger

  Trabajos, Rocas, Pares

  John Pilger (2011). "Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs", p.15, Random House

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• You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist.
  But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

  Humbert Wolfe

  Funny, Men, America

  The Uncelestial City (1930)

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• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  Samantha Power

  Mean, Dreamer, Trying

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• ...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.

  Garrison Keillor

  Smart, Keys, Opening Up

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• Hay espacio en esta gran ciudad en crecimiento para un diario que no sólo sea barato sino brillante, no sólo brillante sino grande, no sólo grande sino verdaderamente democrático, dedicado a la causa del pueblo más que a la de los potentados de la bolsa, dedicado más a las noticias del Nuevo que del Viejo Mundo, que exponga todo fraude y farsa, que combata todos los males y abusos públicos, que corte y luche por el pueblo con sincera seriedad.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Fighting, Cities, People

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• Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.

  James Carville

  Lying, Writing, Color

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• Un buen periódico nunca es lo suficientemente bueno, pero un pésimo periódico es una alegría para siempre.

  Garrison Keillor

  Alegría, Para Siempre, Periodismo

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• Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.

  Ian Mckellen

  Creer, Ideas, Gente

  "Interview with Sir Ian McKellen (Part 1 of 4)". Interview with BY Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. July 10, 2000.

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• The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and machinations, believing in the principles that promise the greatest good to the greatest number-to ALL MEN, regardless of race, creed or previous condition of servitude... It will be a fair newspaper, not a dull and selfish sheet.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Egoísta, Creer, Corazón

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• Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece it had accepted but was unable to run for a lack of space, he refused to write for the magazine again.

  Louis Menand

  Running, Writing, Space

  "Slips on the tongue" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2001.

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• With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

  Donald Davis

  Funny, Writing, Editors

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• It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it as early if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other reliable medium; to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved; to make of the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.

  Adolph Ochs

  New York, Party, Intelligent

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