Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Lord Northcliffe

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
Rebecca West

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis

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

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
Robert McChesney

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Stephen Fry

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
Graham Greene

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
Richard Schickel

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.
David Talbot

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.
David Talbot

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
Jim Lehrer

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
Abe Fortas

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.
Joe Klein

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
Walter Cronkite

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.
David Simon

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
Lewis H. Lapham

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.
Ken Auletta

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Henry R. Luce