Oscar Wilde Quotes

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

Today the greatest evil—and therefore the most immediate—is the press.

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

The newspaper is a moral force second only to the church. It is a political power superior to parties. It is an instrument of justice coequal with the court.

I think in many aspects the press does amazing things and helps a lot of people.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

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

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

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

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

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

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.