Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

Quote by Hedrick Smith

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Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor...

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor...

Politics is just show business for ugly people

Politics is just show business for ugly people

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety...

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety...

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It...

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It...

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which...

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which...

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia...

Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia...

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate...

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate...

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one...

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one...

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all...

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all...

Journalism's ultimate purpose [is] to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter...

Journalism's ultimate purpose [is] to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter...

Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk

Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it...

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it...

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what...

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what...