Journalism - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23362<![CDATA[Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23363<![CDATA[There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23364<![CDATA[Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23365<![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23360<![CDATA[Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23361<![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23355<![CDATA[The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23356<![CDATA[If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23357<![CDATA[Journalism is literature in a hurry. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23358<![CDATA[Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23359<![CDATA[Journalism is merely history's first draft. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23347<![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23348<![CDATA[Nobody's interested in sweetness and light. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23350<![CDATA[The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23351<![CDATA[Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23352<![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23353<![CDATA[Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23354<![CDATA[How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23338<![CDATA[He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks; News from all ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23339<![CDATA[When found, make a note of. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23340<![CDATA[Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23341<![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23342<![CDATA[Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23343<![CDATA[The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23344<![CDATA[You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23345<![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23346<![CDATA[I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the whole of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23336<![CDATA[Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23337<![CDATA[A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23330<![CDATA[Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23331<![CDATA[Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23332<![CDATA[A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23333<![CDATA[To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23334<![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23335<![CDATA[I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23321<![CDATA[The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23322<![CDATA[They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23323<![CDATA[Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23324<![CDATA[[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23325<![CDATA[Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23326<![CDATA[Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23327<![CDATA[A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon, Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23328<![CDATA[The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23329<![CDATA[Journalism is the first rough draft of history. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23312<![CDATA[Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23313<![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23314<![CDATA[We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23315<![CDATA[Journalism is in fact history on the run. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23316<![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23317