Journalism

"We have an old saying in journalism: ´If you don´t understand something, it must be important´."
        --Dave Barry

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

"In the past, he had to 'pay dues'
And develop 'a nose for the news.'
Well, he still has a nose,
But, my, how it grows
When the facts must conform to his views."
        --F.R. Duplantier, The Journalist,(A treatise on modern day TV "journalism.")

"[The press is a] formidable censor of public functionaries -- by arraigning them at the tribune of public opinion -- produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution."
        --Thomas Jefferson

"As the free press develops, the paramount point is whether the journalist, like the scientist or scholar, puts truth in the first place or in the second."
        --Walter Lippmann

"All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose."
        --H. L. Mencken

"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
        --Richard Salant, former President of CBS News