Honore de Balzac Quotes

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else..

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

I'm not a politician; I'm a journalist.

Journalism is not writing.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

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

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.