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Quotes about journalism and journ
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What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Street really is until it craps on you from a great height. (Baker Tom)
Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling. (Baker Tom)
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. (Baker Tom)
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others. (Baker Tom)
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The real news is bad news. (Baker Tom)
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. (Baker Tom)
Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents. (Baker Tom)
A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. (Baker Tom)
The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. (Baker Tom)
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. (Baker Tom)
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. (Baker Tom)
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. (Baker Tom)
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. (Baker Tom)
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark. (Baker Tom)
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. (Baker Tom)
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. (Baker Tom)
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. (Baker Tom)
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself. (Baker Tom)
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. (Baker Tom)
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. (Baker Tom)
Bad manners make a journalist. (Baker Tom)
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. (Baker Tom)
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. (Baker Tom)
A journalist's lasso... the guy who plays villains. (Baker Tom)
A pleasantly sensible piece of journalism. (Baker Tom)
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