Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele. —Bagdikian's Observation More about this quote Tags: journalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “journalism” To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. —Aleister Crowley More about this quote Tags: journalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email However fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, thinks and lives fashionably; virtue and honor will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honor will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: love virtue future knowledge world popularity despair sacrifice present journalism honor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. —Frank Zappa More about this quote Tags: writing music journalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. —Russel Lynes More about this quote Tags: writing journalism novels Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it. —Horace Greeley More about this quote Tags: journalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. —Aleister Crowley More about this quote Tags: journalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
However fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, thinks and lives fashionably; virtue and honor will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honor will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: love virtue future knowledge world popularity despair sacrifice present journalism honor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. —Frank Zappa More about this quote Tags: writing music journalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. —Russel Lynes More about this quote Tags: writing journalism novels Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it. —Horace Greeley More about this quote Tags: journalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email