When you look at the future of journalism, it sometimes helps to look at the past. One of the quick ways to see what is eternal in journalism, the qualities that have endured from hot type to the iphone, is to read quotes from great minds and assortment of other perspectives.
Here is a quick quiz…who said (with the clue that only one was said by a journalist):
- “Journalism largely consists in saying `Lord Jones Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive”
- “Most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read”
- “I hope we never see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it”
- “The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.”
- “Four hostile newspapers are to be feared more than a thousand bayonets”
- “There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.”
- “A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself”
1. G.K. Chesterton
2. Frank Zappa
3. Will Rogers
4. Grace Kelly
5. Napoleon Bonaparte
6. Walter Lippmann
7. Arthur Miller
If you would still like more, here are a few more links:
This assortment reaches far into the past and up to the present.
This is a collection of more contemporary quotes. The collector apologized for so many being negative.
If you know of any great quotes that will provide guidance moving forward, please let us know.
