#journalism

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

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Journalism is literature in a hurry. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#journalism #literature

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#consists #dead #jones #journalism #knew

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#close #craft #criminal #criminal justice #criminal justice system

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#competitiveness #i #journalism #like

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it. ↗

— David Frum

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Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads. ↗

— David Frum

#decisions #door #go #heads #inside

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#almost #ever #fools #here #his way

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#air #between #convinced #head #journalism

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#events #feel #feelings #journalism #look