Journalismin olemus

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.

Mark Twain


Bad manners make a journalist.

Oscar Wilde


Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton


Journalism consists largely in saying ''Lord James is dead'' to people who never knew Lord James was alive.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton


Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

Karl Kraus


If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Karl Kraus


Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat -- no matter who killed the meat for him.

Ernest Hemingway


Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Jean de La Fontaine


The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

Georg C. Lichtenberg


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.

Norman Mailer


Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Arthur Schopenhauer