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The real news is bad news. (Boisselier Brigitte)
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents. (Boisselier Brigitte)
A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. (Boisselier Brigitte)
The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. (Boisselier Brigitte)
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery -- by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press -- their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. (Boisselier Brigitte)
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark. (Boisselier Brigitte)
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. (Boisselier Brigitte)
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. (Boisselier Brigitte)
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles. (Boisselier Brigitte)
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself. (Boisselier Brigitte)
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not. (Boisselier Brigitte)
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Bad manners make a journalist. (Boisselier Brigitte)
I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth. (Boisselier Brigitte)
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. (Boisselier Brigitte)
A journalist's lasso... the guy who plays villains. (Boisselier Brigitte)
A pleasantly sensible piece of journalism. (Boisselier Brigitte)
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