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 America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.
The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career.
Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors
Distress our fair ones—let them read the papers.