To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.
Journalism Quotes
The page is short, has no flagged entries, and is dominated by Oscar Wilde. John Pilger, Joseph Addison, Thomas Carlyle and W. T. Stead share the rest of the top. Wilde’s three sourced lines are the ones to know. In The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891) he says that in America the President reigns for four years and Journalism governs for ever and ever, and that the public has an insatiable curiosity to know everything except what is worth knowing. In The Critic as Artist (1891) he declines to defend modern journalism, which, he says, justifies its own existence by a Darwinian principle.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today.
Journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on power, not win popularity contests.
Did Charity prevail, the press would prove
A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
“Did she believe you?”
“She’s an excellent journalist—of course not.”